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Speaker 1: and welcome. It's playoff weekend. In a couple of days. Hey,

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Speaker 1: in forty eight hours, we're gonna know how the Texans

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Speaker 1: hour edition of the program general Good Evening, and there's

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Speaker 1: nothing like the NFL playoffs. Right, Good Evening, Happy New Year.

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Speaker 1: I get especially excited mark when the start of the season.

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Speaker 1: That's always really really exciting and then the start of

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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three loss to the Bills and the biggest

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Speaker 1: NFL Committee the seventh best game in history. And the

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Speaker 1: Texans can exercise a lot of those demons for a

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Speaker 1: Please don't you how much they want the Texans to win,

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Speaker 1: From an objective stand. Fifty eight yard field goal is

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Speaker 1: a terrible terriblest of his career. You were talking about

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Speaker 1: At least three. That's your number. I think I'm very close.

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Speaker 1: and be terrible. Yeah, you know, And Joe Montana had

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Speaker 1: and it was it kind of It's part of the

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Speaker 1: legend of Joe Montana. And Brady's a huge Montana fan,

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Speaker 1: So I wonder if that comes into his mind he

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Speaker 1: was fort Brady will be a forty three Would you

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Speaker 1: want to start over the forty three year old quarter? No?

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Speaker 1: But if I have a young guy, and I have

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady to be the mentor, if you will and

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Speaker 1: start until this kid's ready, and then Brady ends up

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Speaker 1: playing anyway through the season, and Brady thinks he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have his wild Card game winning moment. I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I don't know what goes on in the mind of

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Speaker 1: Tom Brady, but it would not shock me if this

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Speaker 1: somehow is it in New England. I shocked me at

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Speaker 1: this point I would be shocked if it is. Okay, uh,

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Speaker 1: let's get to some other stuff here. As the Dallas

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Speaker 1: Cowboys are sort of evaluating their situation. It is bizarre.

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Speaker 1: John Bizarre doesn't begin to explain what Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: has out there that one of the rumors. One of

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Speaker 1: the rumors is Garry Kubiak, who is a senior advisor

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Speaker 1: oversees their offense, and he also helps Mike Zimmer when

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Speaker 1: Mike needs advice. That that he would be a co

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Speaker 1: coach with Jason Garrett. Jason Garrett would handle day to

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Speaker 1: day and Gary would be the big picture. And I

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Speaker 1: just I don't hope buy that. I do not buy

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Speaker 1: that for a second, but it's certainly intrigued. Well, if

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Speaker 1: Gary is going to coach again, it would help to

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Speaker 1: other stuff off his play. But how do you do

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Speaker 1: that in the NFL. I just don't see that head coach.

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Speaker 1: There's no way that would work, and I'll guarantee Gary

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Speaker 1: Kubiak wouldn't do it. And I like to think Jason

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Speaker 1: Garrett would walk away rather than having Kubiak's shoved down

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Speaker 1: his throat. Interesting because they love Garrett, clearly, they love

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Speaker 1: him as an employee. By media likes him. He's such

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Speaker 1: a good guy. Hope he lands on his feet, and

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Speaker 1: of course everybody loves Gary Kubiak. But if Gary wanted

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Speaker 1: to be a head coach again, he could do much

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Speaker 1: better than being a co coach with Jason Garrett. John

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Speaker 1: Chris Ballard was very frank during his media session. Eric

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Speaker 1: that's jury light. Now he was not Bruce arians honest

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Speaker 1: when Harryan's analyzed Kim, I mean Jameis Winston this week.

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Speaker 1: But then the media and the fans appreciate Ballard's candor

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Speaker 1: and and uh, I like that. I think that's great.

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Speaker 1: They got a lot of cat money there. I've read

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Speaker 1: one thing by a person I respect cover as a

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Speaker 1: team said there's gonna be a lot of changes, and

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking, okay, and personnel. Brisette had one really good game.

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Speaker 1: Guess who it was against? Yeah, I don't remind me.

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Speaker 1: And that was it. And people try to say, well

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Speaker 1: the stretch. He didn't play well anytime stepping against the Texans.

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Speaker 1: So if I'm them with all these quarterbacks, I'm thinking

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Speaker 1: seriously about another one because I believe that deal he

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Speaker 1: signed and negotiated on his own as a two year deal.

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Speaker 1: Does Ryan Tannehill's success make teams rethink about quarterbacks who

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Speaker 1: have had a shot. Maybe it didn't work out, but

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Speaker 1: they do have talent. Maybe it works out with us.

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Speaker 1: I gotta think that helps. When John Robinson, the general

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Speaker 1: manager the Titans, made that deal for a song and

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Speaker 1: a prayer, I saw him at a fundraiser we did

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Speaker 1: together in Nashville and I said, you know what, when

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Speaker 1: Mary hood It gets hurt, I think he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: a good a good deal for you because he's hungry.

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Speaker 1: He need to change the scenery. Had no idea it

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Speaker 1: would be like this, and they never had any idea

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Speaker 1: he's going to play. It was insurance for when Mariote

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Speaker 1: got hurt. So Tannehill's thirty one, it's a good system

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Speaker 1: for him. He's got talent around him. Arthur Smith's offensive

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Speaker 1: coordinator that works well with him. That's why he better

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Speaker 1: not try to go somewhere else. I think he's smart

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Speaker 1: enough to stay there. And yes, remember Rich Cannon, it

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Speaker 1: worked with him, Testa Verdie, There's a Jim Plunkett, Billy Kilmer.

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Speaker 1: There's quarterbacks throughout history. Yet they got to thirty in

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Speaker 1: that age a lightbulb went off about football and decision

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Speaker 1: making process and learning. Then the key is to get

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Speaker 1: a coach who believes in you and as a system

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Speaker 1: that fits what you do. And that's what they have

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Speaker 1: in Nashville with Tannehill. John, what's going out on the Chronicle.

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Speaker 1: We've got a special section on Saturday that we're doing

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Speaker 1: about the game, and I'm writing about let's see for Friday,

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Speaker 1: I'm writing about Texans giving up big runs lately, which

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Speaker 1: they didn't do the rest of the year and why

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Speaker 1: and what they have to do to prevent it, with

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Speaker 1: Devin Singletary and Aaron Wilson, Brian Smith, Jerome Solomon. Everybody's writing.

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Speaker 1: We have two podcasts on Texas Sports Nation. I have

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Speaker 1: takeaways in which I use at wattstat from ProFootball Focus

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Speaker 1: on Texas Sports Nation. Thank you very much and I

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Speaker 1: will see you on Saturday. Looking forward to it. John

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Speaker 1: McClain of the Houston Chronicle, Hey, if the Texans score

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Speaker 1: two or more touchdowns, head to your closest jack in

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Speaker 1: the box. They scored two last week. The next day

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Speaker 1: it's gonna be the next day for your free Texans

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Speaker 1: jumbo jack with a large Drake purchase. Do it coming up,

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Speaker 1: John Harris and I play more Likely to happen. More

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Speaker 1: on the playoff games this weekend. Texans Bills of course,

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Speaker 1: top of mind, three thirty five on Saturday, it's Texans

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Speaker 1: Radio moving right along on the program in the Honday

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Speaker 1: Texans Radio studio in advance of the Texans taking on

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Speaker 1: the Bills. Saturday Wildcard weekend gets rolling at three thirty

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Speaker 1: five Houston, Buffalo Here at n RG Stadium. John Harris

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Speaker 1: joins us in studio. Now, Johnny, good afternoon, good evening,

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Speaker 1: A good afternoon. Can I can I vent on something

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Speaker 1: just fast while we're here? That's what radios for ad

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Speaker 1: event you have time to do it. CBS Sports ranked

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Speaker 1: the twelve quarterbacks in the playoffs. Oh boy, our man,

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Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, don't tell me, okay where well there are

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Speaker 1: a couple of so Josh Allen's Radio twelve. All right,

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Speaker 1: I don't know, Okay, Well, look I mean he's a

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Speaker 1: good quarterback, but in fairness to everybody else, I mean

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Speaker 1: you have to kind of put him there. Carson Wentz

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Speaker 1: at eleven. Wentz has been carrying that offense in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 1: I mean carrying it with nobody around him. Okay. Number

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Speaker 1: ten Aaron Rodgers. See that's just people, it's funny. Is

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Speaker 1: there a more polarizing guy this season? This season than

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Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers? Before? The love was just flowing endlessly for him.

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Speaker 1: He's better than Tom Brady, right right, right? And now

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Speaker 1: he flun get along whatever? Number nine tom Brady really? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: Number eight Jimmy Garoppolo. I don't know if that's fair either.

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Speaker 1: Come on, Garoppolo had a nice year. Okay. Sean Watson

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Speaker 1: number seven, but wait, wait, wait, wait for you consider that? Okay,

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Speaker 1: consider that Kirk Cousins is at number six, y Ryan

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Speaker 1: Tannehills at number five. Now that is not good. That

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Speaker 1: is not fair. Tannehill's got to be way down with

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Speaker 1: Alan all right, and Cousins, what have you done for

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Speaker 1: me lately? A top six? This quarterbacks? All right, let's

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Speaker 1: have a draft, you know, let's leave our guy out

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Speaker 1: of it so we don't have to be accused of

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Speaker 1: being part of Sam Lamar Mahomes. Those are your first two.

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Speaker 1: I think it's almost Look, if i'm picking and Watson's

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Speaker 1: not in the draft of quarterbacks in this playoff round,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go I'm gonna go Mahomes first. Now, Lamar

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Speaker 1: is obviously based on what he's doing right now with this,

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Speaker 1: I see. I love Lamar. I don't want to take

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Speaker 1: anything away. I don't want to sound like I'm I'm

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Speaker 1: accusing him of being a system guy or anything, because

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Speaker 1: I'm really not. I think he's tremendous. They've built a

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Speaker 1: damn thing around it. They have built it around him.

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Speaker 1: I have my doubts about the long term, and by

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Speaker 1: long term I mean five to ten years sustainability of

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Speaker 1: what they're doing right now. I think he will and

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Speaker 1: has to emerge and improve as a pastor. Mark he

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Speaker 1: throws Mark touchdowns on the pocket that listen. A lot

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Speaker 1: of it is based on what he's able to do

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Speaker 1: on the ground right the fear factor of him taking

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Speaker 1: off the football. I'm not gonna take anything away from

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Speaker 1: what he's doing, but he's gonna have to continue to

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Speaker 1: develop as a pastor so he doesn't have to run

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Speaker 1: this much, because if you run this much, it's not

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Speaker 1: gonna last forever. This just in putting Kirk Cousins ahead

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Speaker 1: of Brady Wentz, Garoppolo and de Sean is criminal. Well,

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Speaker 1: it's criminal. You have a team. I'll give you a team,

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Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, right, and you get to pick a

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Speaker 1: quack and I'm gonna throw here are your options, Cousins, Brady, Garoppolo,

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Speaker 1: Wentz Alan. How many of those are going in front

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Speaker 1: of Cousins At least three? Yes, right, So there it is.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna I mean, Cousins. Look, and we're not saying

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Speaker 1: he's terrible, but he hasn't won a playoff game yet.

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Speaker 1: So that's a small detail right there. And often in

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Speaker 1: big games. Look, they just had the Packers at their place,

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Speaker 1: they just had them there and they couldn't lost. It

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Speaker 1: could caused them dearly to not win that game, and

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Speaker 1: that's why they are where they are now. So that's

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Speaker 1: no good. You know, It's funny because all the lists

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Speaker 1: are out right, the end of the season lists and

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Speaker 1: the Game of the Year and the Games of the

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Speaker 1: decade and the games of the one hundred years and

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Speaker 1: all of that, and we talked about it a little

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Speaker 1: bit last night. I believe how the Texans Saints game

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Speaker 1: on NFL Network was number four, Texans Chiefs game on

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Speaker 1: NFL Films with number four was number four. Taxons showing

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Speaker 1: up in some of these things, I know nice and

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Speaker 1: with Watson, I think I'm not saying Watson's polarizing, but

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Speaker 1: you see some reviews, Oh, my gosh, you gotta watch

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Speaker 1: out for Watson because in the postseason here he's gonna

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Speaker 1: heat up. It's gonna be trouble for opponents, and other

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Speaker 1: reviews that are saying, well, look, you've got some other

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Speaker 1: great quarterbacks in these playoffs, and you know he's gonna

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Speaker 1: have to prove it on this stage. And look, that's

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Speaker 1: fair too, because of what happened last year, right, aren't

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Speaker 1: you seeing it kind of that way, that the stigma,

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Speaker 1: the specter of what went on last year. And I'm

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Speaker 1: not saying it's hanging over here in the building, but

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Speaker 1: from outside the building, that's some of the noise out

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Speaker 1: there that I'm not saying they have to overcome, but

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Speaker 1: I guess they have to overcome into the minds of others.

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Speaker 1: And until they do it, that's gonna be somewhat of

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Speaker 1: a narrative outside of this building. Yeah, there's no question.

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Speaker 1: I think that combined with as this writer put it,

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Speaker 1: Sean Wagner Magoo put it, the slump if you will,

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Speaker 1: down the stretch after the New England game, the you know,

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Speaker 1: struggles obviously against Denver, losing that game, but then handling

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Speaker 1: Tennessee and then not looking great in a Tampa Bay

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Speaker 1: game at all really and struggling and there. So there's

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Speaker 1: some of that that I can I can see people

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Speaker 1: saying that, and I could see them saying, oh, last year,

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Speaker 1: that playoff game. But we know that circumstances and this

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Speaker 1: is for all quarterbacks, not just a Sean and there's

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Speaker 1: circumstances that led to all of that. But when we

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Speaker 1: start ranking quarterbacks and doing things like that, especially these twelve,

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Speaker 1: I think when you look at this group of twelve quarterbacks,

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Speaker 1: I mean there are significant positives across them where there

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Speaker 1: have been some years where team has got into the

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Speaker 1: playoffs and you're like, that guy's the quarterback. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Josh Allen's raided twelfth and he's as he's as difficult

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Speaker 1: to handle as anybody on that list because of all

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Speaker 1: his skills, his arm strength, his ability to run, break tackles,

639
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,960
Speaker 1: all kind of stuff. I would much rather face Kirk

640
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,680
Speaker 1: Cousins on Saturday. Then I went Josh Allen much rather. Oh,

641
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: I would much rather. I would much rather face a

642
00:34:10,520 --> 00:34:13,839
Speaker 1: few holme who else? Who else would I rather face?

643
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. No, Cousins is the one to me

644
00:34:17,160 --> 00:34:19,200
Speaker 1: where I look at and go. He doesn't scare me

645
00:34:19,200 --> 00:34:23,000
Speaker 1: at all. Yeah, he doesn't scare you feel like you

646
00:34:23,040 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: could scout them. And if they're not running the ball,

647
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:28,000
Speaker 1: well it's it's not somebody. Yeah, not somebody can win

648
00:34:28,080 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: a big game. I feel like with the Bills, if

649
00:34:30,760 --> 00:34:33,800
Speaker 1: they're not throwing it or running it, well, Allan's running

650
00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,080
Speaker 1: ability is still a huge factor in playing this football

651
00:34:37,120 --> 00:34:39,200
Speaker 1: team and you better be ready for that. Ye absolutely,

652
00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,160
Speaker 1: And I think that that's where he ends up being

653
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:44,200
Speaker 1: a really big problem. And then you're throwing Devin Singletary.

654
00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: You know. The one thing just kind of watching I've

655
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,120
Speaker 1: watched I watched the Browns game, and watch the Patriots game.

656
00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:52,440
Speaker 1: I watched the Ravens, I watched I had watched Thanksgiving

657
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,240
Speaker 1: Day when the Cowboys game. So I've seen the Bills

658
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:58,239
Speaker 1: play a pretty significant amount. And the one thing I

659
00:34:58,320 --> 00:35:02,719
Speaker 1: keep coming back to there's one one outstanding thought on

660
00:35:02,880 --> 00:35:06,600
Speaker 1: both for both sides of the ball, and that is relentlessness.

661
00:35:07,120 --> 00:35:09,880
Speaker 1: When guys get the football and they and they're running

662
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:13,400
Speaker 1: the ball, they don't go down in first contact. Singletary

663
00:35:13,480 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: breaks tackles all time. Josh Allen does not go down

664
00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:18,840
Speaker 1: in the pocket easy. The receivers are a little smaller,

665
00:35:18,880 --> 00:35:20,640
Speaker 1: so they doesn't really pretend to them as much. But

666
00:35:20,719 --> 00:35:24,080
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox is a thick, athletic tight end, and defensively,

667
00:35:24,120 --> 00:35:27,600
Speaker 1: they just keep coming. They just keep coming. I mean,

668
00:35:27,800 --> 00:35:29,840
Speaker 1: one guy hits you, here comes two or three others.

669
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:34,759
Speaker 1: They're always punching at the football. In at least two

670
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:37,920
Speaker 1: of the games, I saw guys running from behind punching

671
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,920
Speaker 1: the ball out. Jordan Poyer did it against Rex Burkhead

672
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,440
Speaker 1: in the Patriots game, and I can't remember. I think

673
00:35:44,480 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 1: it's raving the game. They're relentless. They just don't stop coming,

674
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,839
Speaker 1: and that is that's something that our guys have got

675
00:35:53,840 --> 00:35:56,040
Speaker 1: to pay attention to, especially when they're rushing the quarterback,

676
00:35:56,080 --> 00:35:58,120
Speaker 1: because you know, it gets to the point where offensive

677
00:35:58,120 --> 00:36:00,040
Speaker 1: lineman have clock in her head. They're like, okay, we

678
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: should be gone by now, and they look back and

679
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:03,920
Speaker 1: de Sean still got the ball. Yea. Our guys hopefully

680
00:36:03,920 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: have adapted to that, and with a team like this

681
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:09,200
Speaker 1: that doesn't stop coming, that ends up being sacks. When

682
00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:10,920
Speaker 1: you say, ah, you should have don't. Oh no, he

683
00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:13,640
Speaker 1: still got the ball. You've got to match them whistle

684
00:36:13,680 --> 00:36:16,919
Speaker 1: to whistle, whistle whistle when you're tackling them. You got

685
00:36:16,920 --> 00:36:19,600
Speaker 1: to bring everybody to the party. When you are protecting

686
00:36:19,640 --> 00:36:22,359
Speaker 1: to Sean or you're on your run blocks, you gotta

687
00:36:22,400 --> 00:36:24,440
Speaker 1: stand that thing all the way to the whistle because

688
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:27,640
Speaker 1: you got to match them physical for physical and from

689
00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:29,480
Speaker 1: whistle to whistle. Because that's the one thing that stood

690
00:36:29,480 --> 00:36:32,160
Speaker 1: out to me more than anything else. They just keep coming.

691
00:36:32,400 --> 00:36:35,520
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter what the situation is. Offense, defense, and

692
00:36:35,560 --> 00:36:40,040
Speaker 1: special teams. They just don't stop. Hey, on that list,

693
00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:44,399
Speaker 1: how high was Breeze ranked four? He was four? Wait,

694
00:36:45,960 --> 00:36:51,320
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Wilson. Wilson was four. Breeze was three homes

695
00:36:51,360 --> 00:36:55,960
Speaker 1: to Jackson one. You know, Russell Wilson is tremendous. Yeah,

696
00:36:55,960 --> 00:36:59,439
Speaker 1: there's no doubt, and I'm so glad for him. He's

697
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,880
Speaker 1: having a kind career he's having, especially since he was

698
00:37:01,920 --> 00:37:03,920
Speaker 1: a third round draft choice. I love this stuff. I

699
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:07,160
Speaker 1: love Breeze a second round draft choice. I don't love Brady,

700
00:37:07,400 --> 00:37:09,560
Speaker 1: but looks a six round draft choice. I love that

701
00:37:09,640 --> 00:37:12,040
Speaker 1: he was a six round draft choice. I like it

702
00:37:12,120 --> 00:37:15,399
Speaker 1: guys when guys do this when not exactly from out

703
00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:18,640
Speaker 1: of nowhere, in Brady's case probably, but guys who are

704
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:21,640
Speaker 1: not drafted in the first round, but they make noise

705
00:37:21,760 --> 00:37:23,960
Speaker 1: as an NFL quarterback over a long period of time.

706
00:37:24,040 --> 00:37:27,719
Speaker 1: So I'm happy for Russell Wilson in that regard that

707
00:37:27,800 --> 00:37:30,719
Speaker 1: game that they played with the forty nine ers. I mean,

708
00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:34,480
Speaker 1: he had six or seven shots inside the fifteen, unable

709
00:37:34,520 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: to get it in the end zone. Now, I know

710
00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:40,200
Speaker 1: there was a so called bad non call there, but

711
00:37:40,320 --> 00:37:42,879
Speaker 1: credit the forty nine ers, and look, they're a tough

712
00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,839
Speaker 1: team to deal with. This is gonna be interesting as

713
00:37:44,880 --> 00:37:48,560
Speaker 1: the top seed rolls through them. It blows my mind, Johnny,

714
00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:51,400
Speaker 1: that the top seed goes through San Francisco. I know

715
00:37:51,520 --> 00:37:54,160
Speaker 1: that there were high hopes with Garoppolo coming back and everything,

716
00:37:54,160 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 1: but they've really done the job on both sides of

717
00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,640
Speaker 1: the football. When we saw them here two years ago,

718
00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:02,239
Speaker 1: we saw a lot of town all. Obviously it was

719
00:38:02,280 --> 00:38:05,560
Speaker 1: a work in progress and my gosh, what progress they've made.

720
00:38:05,640 --> 00:38:07,680
Speaker 1: You know. One of the things that we saw a

721
00:38:07,760 --> 00:38:10,279
Speaker 1: little bit of, and they were kind of banged up

722
00:38:10,320 --> 00:38:12,960
Speaker 1: when they were here, so we didn't see them as

723
00:38:13,040 --> 00:38:16,440
Speaker 1: much as the defensive front, Eric Armstead to Forced Buckner.

724
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,040
Speaker 1: We didn't see as much of them in practice because

725
00:38:19,040 --> 00:38:20,400
Speaker 1: they were a little bit banged up. I think we

726
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:24,759
Speaker 1: ended up seeing ninety one Armstead a little bit. But

727
00:38:24,840 --> 00:38:28,280
Speaker 1: then they added Nick Bosa, Then they added d Ford.

728
00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:31,799
Speaker 1: Then they signed Kwan Alexander who actually hasn't played. In fact,

729
00:38:31,920 --> 00:38:35,120
Speaker 1: Drake Greenlaw, the man who made at tackle at the

730
00:38:35,160 --> 00:38:38,760
Speaker 1: goal line, was the guy replacing Kwan Alexander. Greenlaw, rookie

731
00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:41,799
Speaker 1: out of Arkansas. But you could see the makings of

732
00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:44,560
Speaker 1: it because physically up front, you're looking at their D line.

733
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,200
Speaker 1: You're going, whoa. Now you add Nick bos in it.

734
00:38:47,600 --> 00:38:50,200
Speaker 1: Now you add d Ford to it. Now you add

735
00:38:50,239 --> 00:38:52,880
Speaker 1: Kwan Alexander a linebacker, and you're like, well, that front

736
00:38:52,920 --> 00:38:56,960
Speaker 1: seven's pretty darn salty look out. I mean, they got

737
00:38:56,960 --> 00:39:01,480
Speaker 1: a bunch of first rounders, I mean, Buckner, Armstead, Bosa, Ford,

738
00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:04,640
Speaker 1: all first rounders, all of them, and then they added

739
00:39:04,640 --> 00:39:06,200
Speaker 1: a little bit of depth. We started to see a

740
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:08,520
Speaker 1: little bit of that defensive line when they came here

741
00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:11,000
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago and thought, boy, this is

742
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:14,960
Speaker 1: gonna be a tough team to tangle with in due time.

743
00:39:15,400 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: And they just added more pieces to it. Got Jimmy

744
00:39:18,320 --> 00:39:23,160
Speaker 1: healthy and offensively, you know, Kyle does an excellent job

745
00:39:23,239 --> 00:39:25,800
Speaker 1: of scheming guys open, and of course you got George Kittle,

746
00:39:26,080 --> 00:39:28,440
Speaker 1: who has been phenomenal. But they've added a couple of

747
00:39:28,520 --> 00:39:32,000
Speaker 1: receiver pieces. But I'm with you, I would have thought

748
00:39:32,400 --> 00:39:34,720
Speaker 1: it would go through New Orleans. I just had a feeling.

749
00:39:34,760 --> 00:39:36,920
Speaker 1: I thought New Orleans would be that team. Offense, defense,

750
00:39:36,920 --> 00:39:39,600
Speaker 1: they're pretty good, but they just have stumbled on themselves

751
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,880
Speaker 1: this year. They couldn't they lost to the Falcons, they

752
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:45,080
Speaker 1: couldn't close out that game to the Niners. They just

753
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:46,600
Speaker 1: had a couple of games that were right there in

754
00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 1: front of them at home where you would think they

755
00:39:49,160 --> 00:39:52,960
Speaker 1: don't lose that they ended up losing in and up costume,

756
00:39:52,960 --> 00:39:54,760
Speaker 1: and now they've got to play this weekend. They almost

757
00:39:54,760 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: lost to the Texans on Opening Day as well. They

758
00:39:57,520 --> 00:40:00,640
Speaker 1: sprung some leagues defensively that maybe they wouldn't have a

759
00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:02,400
Speaker 1: last year. And it's too bad for them that they

760
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:04,359
Speaker 1: weren't able to get to the Super Bowl. The bad

761
00:40:04,440 --> 00:40:06,880
Speaker 1: not call last year. If that had happened to the

762
00:40:06,880 --> 00:40:09,040
Speaker 1: New York Giants or the LA Rams or something, there

763
00:40:09,040 --> 00:40:11,960
Speaker 1: would have been a federal investigation. Forget about the Rams.

764
00:40:12,040 --> 00:40:13,920
Speaker 1: I know it's an LA market team, but it doesn't

765
00:40:13,920 --> 00:40:16,040
Speaker 1: work yet. It doesn't work yet for me to say

766
00:40:16,080 --> 00:40:18,840
Speaker 1: that they have that kind of clout in the National

767
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:21,800
Speaker 1: Football League as the Giants or the Cowboys of the Patriots,

768
00:40:21,800 --> 00:40:24,000
Speaker 1: a team like that, and credit the Patriots because they

769
00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 1: built up that cloud over the last decade and a half,

770
00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:29,560
Speaker 1: because they had zero heading into that Brady Belichick era.

771
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,799
Speaker 1: None they were. They were a team that was so

772
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:34,840
Speaker 1: beaten down, even though they had been to two Super Bowls.

773
00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:38,279
Speaker 1: They were so beaten down national reputation wise. But they

774
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,640
Speaker 1: are clearly the exact opposite of that. Right now. Wait

775
00:40:41,640 --> 00:40:45,120
Speaker 1: a couple of quick sidebar here. How many primetime games

776
00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:48,320
Speaker 1: next year for the Houston Texans? Oh, holy smokes? Well

777
00:40:48,680 --> 00:40:52,319
Speaker 1: you know with Lamar, Yes, that's at home. You would

778
00:40:52,400 --> 00:40:54,920
Speaker 1: think in Kansas City's at Kansas City. I would think

779
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:57,439
Speaker 1: that one too. That has potential. The Patriots are here again,

780
00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:00,200
Speaker 1: Patriots are here, so I would think that with with

781
00:41:00,239 --> 00:41:02,439
Speaker 1: Tom Brady not on the team anymore, Stidham as playing

782
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:04,319
Speaker 1: quarterback at this I'm just kidding. We'll get to that

783
00:41:04,320 --> 00:41:06,480
Speaker 1: and more likely to happen, which we've delayed a segment

784
00:41:06,520 --> 00:41:09,839
Speaker 1: by the way, I would think those Baltimore, Kansas City,

785
00:41:09,880 --> 00:41:12,480
Speaker 1: New England were definitely gonna be candidates. You got Pittsburgh,

786
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:16,680
Speaker 1: you got green Bay coming here, which was a primetime

787
00:41:16,719 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: game eight years ago. That was seven years ago. That

788
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:24,400
Speaker 1: was a primetime game, Sunday night game, So you do

789
00:41:24,440 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 1: have a lot of potential. In fact, four, how about four,

790
00:41:27,280 --> 00:41:29,840
Speaker 1: Both times the Packers have been here, it's been a

791
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:33,560
Speaker 1: Sunday night game. Brett Farve in two thousand and four,

792
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:36,560
Speaker 1: that was a Sunday night game, Sunday night game. And

793
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:39,759
Speaker 1: you had Aaron Rodgers in two thousand and twelve, Now

794
00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:42,560
Speaker 1: that was the old Sunday night football with Mike Patrick.

795
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: And in two thousand and four, yeah, yeah, yeah, Paul McGuire,

796
00:41:46,280 --> 00:41:49,560
Speaker 1: I think that was the crew. How about that? Oh wow?

797
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: How about that night crew? Still or no, maybe I

798
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,440
Speaker 1: don't know, I can't remember, but it was a late

799
00:41:55,480 --> 00:41:58,120
Speaker 1: field goal by the Packers that won that. I would

800
00:41:58,160 --> 00:42:00,440
Speaker 1: think that I would think I'm going four okay. And

801
00:42:00,520 --> 00:42:03,160
Speaker 1: the other note I love about next year's schedule is

802
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,560
Speaker 1: that you have the Rustbelt Tour. That's what I'm gonna

803
00:42:05,600 --> 00:42:09,200
Speaker 1: call it all offseason long, where you go to Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Detroit,

804
00:42:09,239 --> 00:42:12,680
Speaker 1: and Chicago. I like that. I like it. I'd liked

805
00:42:12,760 --> 00:42:17,160
Speaker 1: going to I loved going to Pittsburgh. I'd love Pittsburgh,

806
00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:19,920
Speaker 1: and Cleveland was fun trip for us at twenty fourteen.

807
00:42:20,040 --> 00:42:22,120
Speaker 1: Is I wish we went to Cleveland more. I kind

808
00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:24,400
Speaker 1: of like going up there. I like that traditional NFL

809
00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:27,560
Speaker 1: city kind of thing in Pittsburgh. And look, you don't

810
00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:29,880
Speaker 1: like playing the Steelers, but it's fun to go to

811
00:42:29,880 --> 00:42:32,840
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh and do an NFL game. And Detroit Chicago complete

812
00:42:32,840 --> 00:42:35,399
Speaker 1: the thirty two for me, Oh, you haven't been there yet.

813
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:37,120
Speaker 1: Those are the two I have not. Now, I've been

814
00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:39,399
Speaker 1: to each city before, but I've not been to games

815
00:42:39,400 --> 00:42:41,719
Speaker 1: in those cities. So I'm looking forward. I'm looking forward

816
00:42:41,760 --> 00:42:45,719
Speaker 1: to those two. Got a good chance, and then then

817
00:42:45,719 --> 00:42:47,080
Speaker 1: it's gotta then we got to see the other two.

818
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:48,880
Speaker 1: Be goes to see La Stadium and got to see Vegas.

819
00:42:50,000 --> 00:42:52,160
Speaker 1: Well maybe in the preseason, you never know, maybe you

820
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:54,319
Speaker 1: never know. We played the Rams on the preseason last

821
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:55,719
Speaker 1: couple of years, So maybe we do it again. It

822
00:42:55,719 --> 00:42:57,640
Speaker 1: would be so awesome. That would be pretty cool, right,

823
00:42:57,680 --> 00:43:00,000
Speaker 1: so awesome that you know would be even more awesomer Vegas.

824
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:04,040
Speaker 1: Well yeah, but training camp in Vegas? What about training camp?

825
00:43:04,120 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: Well or LA? That's where I was going. What about

826
00:43:06,200 --> 00:43:09,160
Speaker 1: training camp in La? Joint practices in La? I'd love that,

827
00:43:09,160 --> 00:43:12,080
Speaker 1: That's what I'm saying. Well, we'll tell coach. I'm sure

828
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,279
Speaker 1: he wants to hear about that immediately, so I'll go

829
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,879
Speaker 1: up to his office and tell him. At right, Coach,

830
00:43:16,920 --> 00:43:18,319
Speaker 1: I know you're getting ready for the bills, but listen,

831
00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:22,080
Speaker 1: Johnny and I we want training camp in Las Vegas. Though.

832
00:43:22,239 --> 00:43:24,200
Speaker 1: Is that a bad idea of the desert? Yeah? Maybe

833
00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:27,879
Speaker 1: a little in LA. Let's go okay in LA. I'll

834
00:43:27,880 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: tell him that at halftime. Uh, Coach, you know it's

835
00:43:30,880 --> 00:43:34,320
Speaker 1: a seventeen ten game your head, you're feeling good. Training

836
00:43:34,320 --> 00:43:38,280
Speaker 1: camp next year? What do you think? Rams? Extra practice

837
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:42,000
Speaker 1: is how fast I hit? You know? But gets the wall?

838
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:44,279
Speaker 1: I'm gonna hook like john I know you're playing. I

839
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:49,200
Speaker 1: know you're Johnny dangerously nice nice reference, old movie, fun movie. Uh,

840
00:43:49,680 --> 00:43:52,000
Speaker 1: I know you're playing them in the regular season. But man,

841
00:43:52,080 --> 00:43:54,520
Speaker 1: I would sign up for that Packer tour every year

842
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:57,280
Speaker 1: up there. Heck yeah, that place, and I would encourage

843
00:43:57,360 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: every Texans fan who possibly could to go up there

844
00:44:00,160 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: and join us because it is a tremendous place to go. Yeah.

845
00:44:03,080 --> 00:44:04,839
Speaker 1: You and I talked about that when we were up there,

846
00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,040
Speaker 1: and you were like, Wow, this is this is the

847
00:44:07,120 --> 00:44:10,200
Speaker 1: history of the game. I mean. So, Peyton Manning did

848
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:14,400
Speaker 1: that show Peyton Peyton's Places on ESPN, and he did

849
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:17,640
Speaker 1: a couple of episodes where he ended up in Green Bay.

850
00:44:17,719 --> 00:44:20,760
Speaker 1: One where he drove around with Brett Farve in bart

851
00:44:20,920 --> 00:44:25,800
Speaker 1: Stars MVP Corvette from Super Bowl One. They drove around

852
00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:28,600
Speaker 1: Green Bay and Peyton Manning had the same kind of

853
00:44:28,640 --> 00:44:31,920
Speaker 1: reaction you did. It was that reaction of this is

854
00:44:32,320 --> 00:44:34,799
Speaker 1: this is the history of the game. This is the

855
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,799
Speaker 1: coolest place you could possibly be. And they just talked

856
00:44:37,800 --> 00:44:39,759
Speaker 1: about all things in Green Bay, talked with far for

857
00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: a long time. It was they went to Lombardi's house,

858
00:44:43,520 --> 00:44:45,960
Speaker 1: Barti's house and he watched film down in his basement.

859
00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 1: Oh that is I gotta I gotta see this one,

860
00:44:48,520 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: all right, Johnny stick and rap will do more likely

861
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:53,080
Speaker 1: to happen next and among the items and more likely

862
00:44:53,120 --> 00:44:55,439
Speaker 1: to happen rushing yards, how they're gonna come into play

863
00:44:55,480 --> 00:44:57,520
Speaker 1: in this game. Who's gonna have more? But in a

864
00:44:57,520 --> 00:45:00,760
Speaker 1: creative way, we'll get into that and tech since friends

865
00:45:00,760 --> 00:45:02,719
Speaker 1: and foes around the league. It's all coming up on

866
00:45:02,880 --> 00:45:06,160
Speaker 1: Texans Radio. It's a two hour block of Texans All

867
00:45:06,200 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: Access tonight no Thursday night football the postseason, and we

868
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:13,520
Speaker 1: march on with Texans Radio every single night of the week.

869
00:45:13,560 --> 00:45:15,400
Speaker 1: Mark Vander Mayer and John Harris with you in the

870
00:45:15,440 --> 00:45:18,720
Speaker 1: Hunday Texans Radio Studio. Want to keep this baby going.

871
00:45:19,000 --> 00:45:21,719
Speaker 1: People ask me, when are your show's done? Well, we're

872
00:45:21,760 --> 00:45:25,200
Speaker 1: never really done. Yeah, but I hope that the Texans

873
00:45:25,239 --> 00:45:28,000
Speaker 1: are done after the super Bowl because we'll continue the

874
00:45:28,120 --> 00:45:30,719
Speaker 1: day after the super Bowl is the offseason edition of

875
00:45:30,760 --> 00:45:34,160
Speaker 1: Texans All Access six to seven pm. Sports Radio six ten,

876
00:45:34,280 --> 00:45:37,480
Speaker 1: five nights a week now before that. If the Texans

877
00:45:37,520 --> 00:45:40,960
Speaker 1: happened to lose at any point, it's the Monday night

878
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:43,239
Speaker 1: after that loss, and then we wait till after the

879
00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:45,560
Speaker 1: super Bowl. But you'd hope to be playing on and

880
00:45:45,600 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: continuing on. And that's the goal. That's my radio goal.

881
00:45:49,480 --> 00:45:53,319
Speaker 1: That chuxtaposes itself to a football goal, which is to

882
00:45:53,360 --> 00:45:57,200
Speaker 1: win the Super Bowl. So here's my goal. Here's my goal. Okay,

883
00:45:57,239 --> 00:46:02,640
Speaker 1: that kind of very very similar, but more than likely.

884
00:46:02,680 --> 00:46:04,880
Speaker 1: If we got the AFC Championship game, we'd have to travel.

885
00:46:05,280 --> 00:46:09,319
Speaker 1: So travel the AFC Championship Game, win the AFC Championship,

886
00:46:09,880 --> 00:46:13,520
Speaker 1: fly home, do Texas Monday, talking about going to the the

887
00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:18,000
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, right then fly out that Monday to New Orleans,

888
00:46:18,120 --> 00:46:21,480
Speaker 1: drive to Mobile, through the Senior Bowl that week, come back,

889
00:46:22,560 --> 00:46:25,000
Speaker 1: and then go to Miami for the Super Bowl. So

890
00:46:25,080 --> 00:46:27,040
Speaker 1: you want, yeah, you want to be on the team

891
00:46:27,080 --> 00:46:29,279
Speaker 1: plane when you go to Miami. Oh yeah, of course.

892
00:46:29,280 --> 00:46:30,920
Speaker 1: I mean you want to be getting because all the

893
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:32,880
Speaker 1: cameras are gonna be and they're gonna be waiting for

894
00:46:32,920 --> 00:46:35,719
Speaker 1: John Harris to come down the stairs. Care about that? No, No,

895
00:46:35,800 --> 00:46:37,759
Speaker 1: I care about that, you know, all right, I don't

896
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:40,080
Speaker 1: care about that. I just want to go AFC Championship Game,

897
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:42,520
Speaker 1: Mobile Miami. That's how I want to spend the early

898
00:46:42,560 --> 00:46:44,640
Speaker 1: part of twenty twenty. Since it's radio and we're kind

899
00:46:44,640 --> 00:46:46,239
Speaker 1: of dreaming here a little bit. I mean it's good

900
00:46:46,239 --> 00:46:47,600
Speaker 1: to dream because that's how you get to you know,

901
00:46:47,640 --> 00:46:50,080
Speaker 1: you dream big. I mean we have dream walking out

902
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:52,839
Speaker 1: of the tunnel. Yes, and you gotta dream, he says,

903
00:46:52,880 --> 00:46:55,560
Speaker 1: you gotta dream. Yes. If if you can dream it,

904
00:46:55,600 --> 00:46:57,680
Speaker 1: you can do it. That kind of thing anyway. Uh.

905
00:46:57,880 --> 00:47:00,799
Speaker 1: Gil Santo's former voice of the Page Patriots, the late

906
00:47:00,840 --> 00:47:04,960
Speaker 1: Gil Santos In two thousand and three, when the Patriots

907
00:47:05,000 --> 00:47:08,799
Speaker 1: bus pulled off up to the hotel, I was covering that,

908
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,479
Speaker 1: you know, I was just there. You know, I didn't

909
00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:12,719
Speaker 1: know what to expect or whatever. I'd never covered a

910
00:47:12,760 --> 00:47:15,279
Speaker 1: super Bowl before. But it's the two thousand and three

911
00:47:15,320 --> 00:47:17,120
Speaker 1: seasons super Bowl and they were in it. You know,

912
00:47:17,200 --> 00:47:19,960
Speaker 1: of course they're in it for the second consecutive year. No, No, No,

913
00:47:20,000 --> 00:47:22,360
Speaker 1: they were in it for the first time. Yeah, because

914
00:47:22,360 --> 00:47:24,719
Speaker 1: they they wanted in two thousand and one. Yeah, so

915
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,640
Speaker 1: they were. That was the time they missed two thousand

916
00:47:26,640 --> 00:47:29,080
Speaker 1: and two playoffs back in two thousand and three. Back

917
00:47:29,120 --> 00:47:31,560
Speaker 1: in two thousand and three. So he comes off the

918
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:33,920
Speaker 1: bus and he lights up a cigarette, and I'm like,

919
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:36,600
Speaker 1: you know, smoking is bad for you kids. But he

920
00:47:36,680 --> 00:47:38,440
Speaker 1: was super cool. I gotta say this. I mean, he's

921
00:47:38,440 --> 00:47:41,479
Speaker 1: just super cool. He really was. Man. I mean, those

922
00:47:41,520 --> 00:47:45,840
Speaker 1: Boston got Johnny Most smoked. I don't know if you

923
00:47:45,920 --> 00:47:49,080
Speaker 1: could hear it in Johnny's voice, Yeah, don't do it.

924
00:47:49,400 --> 00:47:51,760
Speaker 1: You know what. He quit, but he quit later in life.

925
00:47:52,280 --> 00:47:54,839
Speaker 1: He had two for health reasons. And one night I'm

926
00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: listening to him and he's like, Hi, it's Johnny, most

927
00:47:56,960 --> 00:47:59,400
Speaker 1: like his voice completely cleared up, and I think it's you.

928
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:02,360
Speaker 1: Don't even sound I'm like you anymore. This is bizarre.

929
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:05,799
Speaker 1: I love Gil said. You know, Gill told me back then,

930
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:08,040
Speaker 1: because that was my second year with the Texans, and

931
00:48:08,080 --> 00:48:09,560
Speaker 1: Gill and I had known each other a little bit.

932
00:48:09,600 --> 00:48:11,479
Speaker 1: He was a semi mentor of mine, and he said,

933
00:48:12,200 --> 00:48:14,920
Speaker 1: he said, when your team gets good, eventually, there's nothing

934
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,520
Speaker 1: like it. I said, look, Gill, there's nothing like it.

935
00:48:17,560 --> 00:48:19,759
Speaker 1: Now I'm into it. I love it no matter what.

936
00:48:19,840 --> 00:48:21,279
Speaker 1: And you know what else, I love the game that

937
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:24,040
Speaker 1: has swept the nation. No longer sweeping, it has swept.

938
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:28,480
Speaker 1: More likely to happen, It's more likely to happen, to happen.

939
00:48:28,600 --> 00:48:31,920
Speaker 1: And here's the first one, Johnny. More likely to happen

940
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,040
Speaker 1: or greater number I should say, jj watt number of

941
00:48:35,080 --> 00:48:38,239
Speaker 1: plays or the combined points in this game by the

942
00:48:38,280 --> 00:48:42,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills in the Houston Texans. Wow. Yeah, I'm going

943
00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:48,120
Speaker 1: to say JJ Watt combined place or place so Watt

944
00:48:48,120 --> 00:48:51,320
Speaker 1: could play give me anover like forty That's what I'm thinking,

945
00:48:51,480 --> 00:48:55,640
Speaker 1: and then combined points. Seen. This feels like a twenty

946
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,719
Speaker 1: to seventeen game, doesn't it. It's got twenty to seventeen

947
00:48:58,719 --> 00:49:02,360
Speaker 1: written all over it. Twenty to seventeen? Is this era

948
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:05,920
Speaker 1: of Texans football? Twenty one to seventeen? Maybe, twenty four

949
00:49:06,000 --> 00:49:08,960
Speaker 1: to twenty one maybe, But that's why I'm thinking forty

950
00:49:09,000 --> 00:49:10,959
Speaker 1: to forty five for JJ, and I'm thinking the game's

951
00:49:11,000 --> 00:49:14,480
Speaker 1: twenty to seventeen McClain. McClain said, twenty one to seventeen,

952
00:49:14,520 --> 00:49:16,759
Speaker 1: I think, or twenty one to wait, what do you say?

953
00:49:16,760 --> 00:49:19,440
Speaker 1: Twenty one to nineteen. I don't know why I picked

954
00:49:19,480 --> 00:49:22,000
Speaker 1: nineteen for the Bills, but I said the number is

955
00:49:22,040 --> 00:49:24,040
Speaker 1: twenty for the Houston Texas. I always pick a number,

956
00:49:24,160 --> 00:49:27,320
Speaker 1: and that is my number to get it done on Saturday.

957
00:49:27,360 --> 00:49:31,360
Speaker 1: Twenty That feels right. And look, twenty you think twenty

958
00:49:31,440 --> 00:49:34,120
Speaker 1: people here, twenty they think, well, wait a minute, that

959
00:49:34,200 --> 00:49:36,480
Speaker 1: doesn't sound like a lot. That should be pretty It's

960
00:49:36,480 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills. They lead. Oh, they're top three in

961
00:49:39,880 --> 00:49:44,080
Speaker 1: scoring and yards defense. We'll see the twenty points. Would

962
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,120
Speaker 1: have beatn him against the Jets, would have beating them

963
00:49:47,160 --> 00:49:49,480
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, would have beatn him against the Titans,

964
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:51,640
Speaker 1: would have beat him against the Eagles, they'd be out

965
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Yeah, would have beat him against the Browns.

966
00:49:55,040 --> 00:49:58,200
Speaker 1: It would jeez, it would have beat him against the Ravens,

967
00:49:58,239 --> 00:50:00,680
Speaker 1: beat him against the Patriots, beating him at the Steelers.

968
00:50:00,640 --> 00:50:02,759
Speaker 1: They won. They won a number of those. They won.

969
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:04,799
Speaker 1: All those games where they didn't hit twenty, they won.

970
00:50:04,880 --> 00:50:07,560
Speaker 1: They beat the Jets with seventeen. They beat the Titans

971
00:50:07,560 --> 00:50:12,640
Speaker 1: with fourteen, They beat the fourteen. Yeah, they beat They

972
00:50:12,719 --> 00:50:16,080
Speaker 1: beat the Steelers with seventeen. How many's at four? Four

973
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,799
Speaker 1: games or say seventeen points got it done for them?

974
00:50:18,840 --> 00:50:20,879
Speaker 1: And look, I know the Steelers have had all sorts

975
00:50:20,880 --> 00:50:24,160
Speaker 1: of quarterback issues, but they beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh

976
00:50:24,320 --> 00:50:28,479
Speaker 1: with seventeen points. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Buffalo Bills. Okay,

977
00:50:28,520 --> 00:50:31,320
Speaker 1: I got your point, then, Okay, more likely to happen,

978
00:50:31,840 --> 00:50:35,960
Speaker 1: more likely to happen Josh Allen's rushing yards being the

979
00:50:36,000 --> 00:50:40,120
Speaker 1: greater number, or Texans tight ends receiving yards being the

980
00:50:40,120 --> 00:50:44,520
Speaker 1: greater number, more likely to happen, more yards, Alan on

981
00:50:44,560 --> 00:50:47,160
Speaker 1: the ground by the Texans tight ends through the air

982
00:50:47,320 --> 00:50:50,200
Speaker 1: Texans tight ends because I do think in this game

983
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: one of the areas in which the Texans are going

984
00:50:52,920 --> 00:50:56,240
Speaker 1: to have to exploit the Bills, especially if the Bills

985
00:50:56,880 --> 00:51:01,759
Speaker 1: take away the run game off of zone reads, so

986
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:05,440
Speaker 1: they take away that, they take away the r of

987
00:51:05,520 --> 00:51:08,840
Speaker 1: the RPO or just the zone read action sort of

988
00:51:08,880 --> 00:51:11,120
Speaker 1: like the Ravens did, then the tight ends are gotta

989
00:51:11,160 --> 00:51:13,520
Speaker 1: be involved. The tight ends are got to be outlets

990
00:51:13,520 --> 00:51:15,120
Speaker 1: for to Shawn to be able to flip it out

991
00:51:15,160 --> 00:51:17,960
Speaker 1: the Fells get what you can fellas he find Aikins

992
00:51:17,960 --> 00:51:21,040
Speaker 1: down the team. That's the other area too, because you

993
00:51:21,080 --> 00:51:23,920
Speaker 1: know the secondary is gonna be locked in on Hopkins

994
00:51:24,000 --> 00:51:27,800
Speaker 1: Fuller if he plays Stills well, maybe Jordan Nakins getting

995
00:51:27,800 --> 00:51:30,120
Speaker 1: in the slot. Maybe the things that Jordan did last week,

996
00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:32,840
Speaker 1: as crazy as it sounds, maybe those things kind of

997
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:34,879
Speaker 1: opened some eyes to the Texas to say, look, maybe

998
00:51:34,880 --> 00:51:36,520
Speaker 1: we need to get a little bit more involved in

999
00:51:36,600 --> 00:51:39,040
Speaker 1: the passing game. And there have been times where DeShawn

1000
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:42,520
Speaker 1: has looked up Jordan in the passing game and found him.

1001
00:51:42,560 --> 00:51:45,080
Speaker 1: So I think a couple of big plays from the

1002
00:51:45,120 --> 00:51:48,040
Speaker 1: tight ends, and that's gonna be a number. Hopefully that

1003
00:51:48,160 --> 00:51:50,640
Speaker 1: gets you ahead at Josh Allen. Hopefully if Allen's got

1004
00:51:50,640 --> 00:51:52,759
Speaker 1: a ton of rushing yards, we could be in some

1005
00:51:52,960 --> 00:51:55,360
Speaker 1: we could be in some trouble. Yeah, can't let that happen.

1006
00:51:55,480 --> 00:51:58,240
Speaker 1: Cannot let that happen at all. Gotta watch John Brown

1007
00:51:58,280 --> 00:52:00,520
Speaker 1: and the receiving game and you know all there guys,

1008
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:04,760
Speaker 1: really but Josh Allen's legs, his ability to do things

1009
00:52:04,840 --> 00:52:07,640
Speaker 1: off schedule, that's a big concern for me. Here's one

1010
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:10,399
Speaker 1: of the things about Alan that makes it so problematic.

1011
00:52:10,520 --> 00:52:13,680
Speaker 1: Sometimes when Alan is just in the pocket, just in

1012
00:52:13,719 --> 00:52:16,839
Speaker 1: the pocket, got it delivered from the pocket, it's not

1013
00:52:16,920 --> 00:52:22,000
Speaker 1: always pretty for him and for the Bills when Josh

1014
00:52:22,000 --> 00:52:24,160
Speaker 1: Allen gets out, especially to his right. And I know

1015
00:52:24,239 --> 00:52:26,279
Speaker 1: you remember this because this happened early in the game

1016
00:52:26,680 --> 00:52:29,960
Speaker 1: against US last year. I saw him do this at Wyoming.

1017
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,600
Speaker 1: I don't know how many times I saw him roll

1018
00:52:32,719 --> 00:52:36,000
Speaker 1: to the right, running full dead sprint to the right

1019
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,160
Speaker 1: and see a receiver down the field. I saw him

1020
00:52:39,200 --> 00:52:42,520
Speaker 1: when he was at Wyoming throw one about sixty yards again.

1021
00:52:42,520 --> 00:52:45,480
Speaker 1: I think it was against Boise State. Maybe his right

1022
00:52:45,560 --> 00:52:48,560
Speaker 1: foot was about to go out of bounds and he

1023
00:52:49,200 --> 00:52:53,080
Speaker 1: launches falling out of bounds sixty yards on a dime

1024
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:56,359
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. He does some of his best work

1025
00:52:56,400 --> 00:52:59,280
Speaker 1: on the run, and last year against US, he rolled

1026
00:52:59,320 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: all the way. Guys are chasing him, and for some reason,

1027
00:53:02,920 --> 00:53:05,440
Speaker 1: Lashaw McCoy just kind of floated to the middle of

1028
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:10,640
Speaker 1: the field and somehow Alan throws back to him fading

1029
00:53:10,640 --> 00:53:12,440
Speaker 1: out of mounds and McCoy ends up getting a big

1030
00:53:12,440 --> 00:53:14,440
Speaker 1: play and it was the only points that the Bills

1031
00:53:14,480 --> 00:53:18,319
Speaker 1: scored in that game until the fourth quarter, because they

1032
00:53:18,360 --> 00:53:20,360
Speaker 1: end up getting a field goal off that drive. McCoy

1033
00:53:20,440 --> 00:53:21,879
Speaker 1: got it on down, got in the field goal range,

1034
00:53:21,920 --> 00:53:23,960
Speaker 1: that kicked the field goal, and that put them up

1035
00:53:23,960 --> 00:53:25,719
Speaker 1: three out. Then the Texans took a lead and had

1036
00:53:25,760 --> 00:53:28,239
Speaker 1: the lead for a long time in that game until

1037
00:53:28,360 --> 00:53:32,040
Speaker 1: Peterman came in. When he fades all the way right,

1038
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,600
Speaker 1: he's running right, he's gonna throw it. He's gonna throw it.

1039
00:53:35,600 --> 00:53:38,120
Speaker 1: He loves to throw it back across his body and

1040
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:40,359
Speaker 1: he'll throw it deep, he'll throw it short. He makes

1041
00:53:40,360 --> 00:53:43,640
Speaker 1: a throw in the Patriots game where when he's rolling right,

1042
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:47,200
Speaker 1: he sees Cole Beasley and there is not there's not

1043
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:50,160
Speaker 1: a foot of space in between Beasley and the defender

1044
00:53:50,600 --> 00:53:54,399
Speaker 1: and Alan sticks it in on the run twenty five

1045
00:53:54,480 --> 00:53:58,239
Speaker 1: yards away and it's like whoa, So he may when

1046
00:53:58,280 --> 00:54:00,560
Speaker 1: he goes to the right, he still thinks can throw.

1047
00:54:01,280 --> 00:54:03,680
Speaker 1: What you don't want Alan to do is to get

1048
00:54:03,719 --> 00:54:06,959
Speaker 1: in those design run situations against the Ravens. They didn't

1049
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,839
Speaker 1: do any design runs early on. No zone reads, know nothing.

1050
00:54:10,160 --> 00:54:13,520
Speaker 1: The first two the first three plays right out of

1051
00:54:13,520 --> 00:54:16,640
Speaker 1: the shoot against the Ravens in second half were zone read,

1052
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:19,960
Speaker 1: pop pass, and then zone read on the next not

1053
00:54:20,000 --> 00:54:21,799
Speaker 1: the next play, but to play after that, and they

1054
00:54:22,000 --> 00:54:23,960
Speaker 1: ended up getting like forty yards and that really kind

1055
00:54:23,960 --> 00:54:27,120
Speaker 1: of got the offense going. So they used that zone

1056
00:54:27,120 --> 00:54:30,200
Speaker 1: read and he pulls it to get them rolling. And

1057
00:54:30,320 --> 00:54:32,320
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get some yards that the Texas

1058
00:54:32,320 --> 00:54:33,960
Speaker 1: got to be aware of to take him down. But

1059
00:54:34,120 --> 00:54:36,040
Speaker 1: I still think the tight ends receiving yards is gonna

1060
00:54:36,000 --> 00:54:39,080
Speaker 1: be a higher number. Okay, next one, more likely to happen,

1061
00:54:39,520 --> 00:54:42,560
Speaker 1: more likely to happen next year. Brady is in New England,

1062
00:54:42,680 --> 00:54:48,480
Speaker 1: Brady is anywhere else, including retired. I think it's more

1063
00:54:48,520 --> 00:54:51,040
Speaker 1: likely that he's playing for the Patriots right than anything

1064
00:54:51,080 --> 00:54:54,000
Speaker 1: else another team. McClain and I debated this last hour,

1065
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,600
Speaker 1: because I said, remember who Brady's hero is, Joe Montana,

1066
00:54:57,760 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: and remember where he went and what he did. Yeah,

1067
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,480
Speaker 1: he was able to prove himself with another team and

1068
00:55:03,920 --> 00:55:06,080
Speaker 1: Bill and it was important to him to do that

1069
00:55:06,080 --> 00:55:08,200
Speaker 1: because Steve Young was coming on. Now, there's no Steve

1070
00:55:08,280 --> 00:55:11,680
Speaker 1: Young in New England unless unless he turns into that.

1071
00:55:12,080 --> 00:55:15,680
Speaker 1: But the point is this, nobody's waiting in the wings

1072
00:55:15,719 --> 00:55:18,120
Speaker 1: with the oom of Steve Young, or at least the

1073
00:55:18,280 --> 00:55:22,280
Speaker 1: perceived oom. Okay, well, before I answer that, Yeah, if

1074
00:55:22,520 --> 00:55:26,320
Speaker 1: if let's say that, the answer to that is Brady

1075
00:55:26,440 --> 00:55:31,719
Speaker 1: is playing somewhere else in twenty twenty. Right where would

1076
00:55:31,719 --> 00:55:34,560
Speaker 1: you think it would be. It would be somewhere where

1077
00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:37,560
Speaker 1: there's a quarterback that they drafted that they want him

1078
00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:40,799
Speaker 1: to mentor that kind of thing. I wonder if he's

1079
00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:44,759
Speaker 1: wounded that way though, Brady, Yeah, Well, I mean he's

1080
00:55:44,760 --> 00:55:46,880
Speaker 1: a good teammate, don't get me wrong, Like he's I

1081
00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,680
Speaker 1: think he's a good teammate. Would Manning do that? No, yeah, exactly,

1082
00:55:50,719 --> 00:55:53,560
Speaker 1: like what would he? Would Brady be that kind of guy? Like,

1083
00:55:53,640 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: come on, rook, let's do it this way. I mean,

1084
00:55:55,560 --> 00:55:57,839
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, the Chargers make a lot

1085
00:55:57,840 --> 00:56:01,600
Speaker 1: of sense. It's back here in California. Geez a Charger,

1086
00:56:01,840 --> 00:56:05,279
Speaker 1: let me let me give you one that you stole it.

1087
00:56:05,360 --> 00:56:09,560
Speaker 1: That's exactly where is going, Grudena. I don't think that

1088
00:56:09,640 --> 00:56:13,759
Speaker 1: Brady will want to go anywhere in which this might

1089
00:56:13,840 --> 00:56:16,799
Speaker 1: this might determination, And I don't think Brady would want

1090
00:56:16,800 --> 00:56:19,279
Speaker 1: to go anywhere in which the head coach has any

1091
00:56:19,280 --> 00:56:24,279
Speaker 1: sort of stroke that could take any credit for this success,

1092
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:26,960
Speaker 1: if that makes any sense, Because it's with those two guys,

1093
00:56:26,960 --> 00:56:29,279
Speaker 1: with Brady and Belichick. All that you kind of here

1094
00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,719
Speaker 1: from New England is well, they want to prove they

1095
00:56:31,760 --> 00:56:34,839
Speaker 1: can do it without each other, right that Belichick wants

1096
00:56:34,840 --> 00:56:36,600
Speaker 1: to prove that he can do without Brady. Brady wants

1097
00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:38,600
Speaker 1: to prove he can do without Belichick, which I mean,

1098
00:56:38,600 --> 00:56:40,520
Speaker 1: I understand this competitor. You want to you want to

1099
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:44,000
Speaker 1: feel like my my success, that the team's success in

1100
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:46,880
Speaker 1: large part of what I did. But they're the ultimate

1101
00:56:46,960 --> 00:56:48,879
Speaker 1: team guys too, so they knew what each one meant

1102
00:56:48,920 --> 00:56:51,359
Speaker 1: to each other. But that's it. That's why I think

1103
00:56:51,360 --> 00:56:53,200
Speaker 1: the Raiders. But the Raiders came to mind. I was like,

1104
00:56:53,320 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 1: WHOA that could be interesting, that had could be really

1105
00:56:57,600 --> 00:57:01,719
Speaker 1: really there's so many factors involved here, But it would

1106
00:57:01,760 --> 00:57:04,319
Speaker 1: have to be a team that has some potential to

1107
00:57:04,360 --> 00:57:07,800
Speaker 1: protect him and to win. And I look at a

1108
00:57:07,840 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 1: team like say Carolina, Yeah, they have some juice. Oh man,

1109
00:57:13,400 --> 00:57:17,120
Speaker 1: he's got McCaffrey to throw too. He got what would McCaffrey.

1110
00:57:17,160 --> 00:57:19,919
Speaker 1: What would McCaffrey do with Tom Brady. I mean that's

1111
00:57:19,920 --> 00:57:21,880
Speaker 1: the other thing too. Who's gonna be the coaching Who's

1112
00:57:21,880 --> 00:57:24,320
Speaker 1: gonna be the coach? I don't know. We're just talking

1113
00:57:24,320 --> 00:57:26,680
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Listen, I'll give you one that would be

1114
00:57:26,680 --> 00:57:31,000
Speaker 1: really interesting. What's that Cleveland? Yeah, that's a little too

1115
00:57:31,000 --> 00:57:34,080
Speaker 1: interesting now because Mayfield's gonna play. You gotta play Mayfield.

1116
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:36,800
Speaker 1: I mean, what if Josh McDaniels ends up being a guy?

1117
00:57:36,840 --> 00:57:38,280
Speaker 1: I mean, he's done one pick. They're not they're not

1118
00:57:38,280 --> 00:57:40,720
Speaker 1: gonna let that. Yeah, but you want to talk about

1119
00:57:40,760 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: reversing whatever curses would be in Cleveland? The Bengals. No,

1120
00:57:44,320 --> 00:57:47,640
Speaker 1: he'd never never, he'd never go. I would like for

1121
00:57:47,680 --> 00:57:51,840
Speaker 1: Tom Brady to go to the NFC. Yeah, please go

1122
00:57:52,000 --> 00:57:56,600
Speaker 1: somewhere in the NFC. Jacksonville, No, No, no, not gonna happen.

1123
00:57:56,800 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: Jackson's gonna be interesting one to watch. I mean if

1124
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,560
Speaker 1: they want to fall in love with minshu Mania. More

1125
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:05,640
Speaker 1: power to him. But uh, Jacoby Brissette Chris Ballard GM

1126
00:58:05,680 --> 00:58:09,520
Speaker 1: today said I'm a short lease. Well that's our next one.

1127
00:58:10,760 --> 00:58:15,320
Speaker 1: Happen Brissette at quarterback at Indy or the field, the field,

1128
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:20,920
Speaker 1: he's not when when Ballard, when Ballard says publicly, yeah,

1129
00:58:20,960 --> 00:58:24,680
Speaker 1: he's pretty much a short lease, short leash. It's not good.

1130
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:30,000
Speaker 1: That's a sign that there's not a ton of confidence

1131
00:58:30,000 --> 00:58:33,480
Speaker 1: in that guy in that building. Ballard is if anything,

1132
00:58:33,600 --> 00:58:36,240
Speaker 1: he's honest and he is going to tell you what

1133
00:58:36,280 --> 00:58:38,240
Speaker 1: he thinks. I gotta answer the other one too, about Brady.

1134
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:40,840
Speaker 1: I think Brady, I think he stays in New England.

1135
00:58:41,520 --> 00:58:43,520
Speaker 1: Think I think it's a one year deal. I think

1136
00:58:43,600 --> 00:58:48,760
Speaker 1: Robert Kraft steps in and says he's not going anywhere,

1137
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:52,240
Speaker 1: He's staying here. Well, look, this is something that obviously

1138
00:58:52,280 --> 00:58:55,280
Speaker 1: he's thought about. Should there be a farewell tour of swords?

1139
00:58:55,440 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: Should there? But this is the NFL. You just don't

1140
00:58:57,720 --> 00:58:59,800
Speaker 1: do stuff like that. You know, Manning had a little

1141
00:59:00,000 --> 00:59:03,640
Speaker 1: anyone because they brought him back and here's he's playing

1142
00:59:03,680 --> 00:59:06,360
Speaker 1: and let's say goodbye properly and all of that. But

1143
00:59:06,720 --> 00:59:09,680
Speaker 1: with Brady. I'm just not so sure. He just might

1144
00:59:09,720 --> 00:59:11,880
Speaker 1: want to if they lose to the Titans. And by

1145
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:13,560
Speaker 1: the way, we're gonna get to that because I want you,

1146
00:59:13,960 --> 00:59:15,920
Speaker 1: I want your picks on the other games, what you

1147
00:59:15,960 --> 00:59:18,520
Speaker 1: think might transpire in these playoffs. We gotta get to

1148
00:59:18,560 --> 00:59:20,840
Speaker 1: Whitney Merciless as well. We're gonna get an interview with

1149
00:59:20,920 --> 00:59:22,880
Speaker 1: him in here. We get a lot of things to

1150
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:25,440
Speaker 1: do before the close up business on Texans All Access.

1151
00:59:26,080 --> 00:59:29,160
Speaker 1: Moving right along here on Texans All Access with John Harris.

1152
00:59:29,200 --> 00:59:32,040
Speaker 1: I'm Mark vander Meer here in the Hunday Texans Radio studio.

1153
00:59:32,080 --> 00:59:37,880
Speaker 1: Texans and Bills on Saturday three thirty five ESPN ABC.

1154
00:59:38,080 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: So it's on ABC thirteen and we are on the

1155
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,840
Speaker 1: air at one pm with Texans Extra Points and Johnny

1156
00:59:44,840 --> 00:59:46,760
Speaker 1: and I are on that show sometimes, but we're not

1157
00:59:46,800 --> 00:59:49,000
Speaker 1: on this week. It's gonna be Sean Pendergast in Dbcito.

1158
00:59:49,040 --> 00:59:51,040
Speaker 1: We didn't get the playoff assignment, No, but I gotta

1159
00:59:51,080 --> 00:59:53,400
Speaker 1: tell straighter assignment. So I do have to tell Straighter. Yeah,

1160
00:59:53,640 --> 00:59:55,600
Speaker 1: I'm not on it at all, and I'm really bummed

1161
00:59:55,600 --> 01:00:00,280
Speaker 1: now next week, next week, if the Texans keep playing doubt,

1162
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:02,880
Speaker 1: I'm putting my foot down. I'm gonna be on. I'm

1163
01:00:02,920 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: on the show. I want to be on that pregame hype. Yeah,

1164
01:00:06,040 --> 01:00:08,320
Speaker 1: well as well you should. And I'm on Texans Game

1165
01:00:08,400 --> 01:00:11,720
Speaker 1: Day as you are, which will be at KPRC Saturday morning,

1166
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:15,200
Speaker 1: special time nine thirty for Texans Game Day. Will start

1167
01:00:15,200 --> 01:00:16,920
Speaker 1: the day off right. Yeah. I've also got to tell

1168
01:00:17,000 --> 01:00:20,200
Speaker 1: straighter there. I happen to see this. We got plenty

1169
01:00:20,200 --> 01:00:23,400
Speaker 1: of things to get to. But James Palmer, our buddy

1170
01:00:23,440 --> 01:00:27,960
Speaker 1: from NFL Network, tweeted this earlier, and then somebody from

1171
01:00:28,040 --> 01:00:32,880
Speaker 1: Jacksonville wrote something that is it's almost jaw dropping. What's

1172
01:00:33,400 --> 01:00:37,040
Speaker 1: the highest passer rating in the first three seasons of

1173
01:00:37,040 --> 01:00:41,480
Speaker 1: a career? Higher passer rating through the first three seasons.

1174
01:00:42,040 --> 01:00:43,960
Speaker 1: Number one on that list is Patrick Mahomes one o

1175
01:00:44,040 --> 01:00:47,440
Speaker 1: eight point nine. The Shawn through three seasons is number

1176
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:50,840
Speaker 1: two at one on one. Number three on that list

1177
01:00:50,920 --> 01:00:54,400
Speaker 1: is Russell Wilson at ninety eight point six. Interesting, next

1178
01:00:54,520 --> 01:00:57,920
Speaker 1: is that Dan Marino ninety six point four, and after

1179
01:00:58,000 --> 01:01:02,400
Speaker 1: that is Dak Prescott ninety six point zero. So Mahomes, Watson,

1180
01:01:02,840 --> 01:01:06,240
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson, Dan Marino, Dak Prescott minimum of one thousand

1181
01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:09,280
Speaker 1: past attempts, so Vito Stellino has been covered to Jackson

1182
01:01:09,280 --> 01:01:13,880
Speaker 1: for a long long time. He retweets that and says,

1183
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:19,000
Speaker 1: the Jags passed up the first two four Fournette, Mahomes

1184
01:01:19,000 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: and Watson, and they passed up the third one, Russell

1185
01:01:22,320 --> 01:01:26,600
Speaker 1: Wilson for a punter. Oh gosh, and we have him

1186
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:30,720
Speaker 1: and we have that punter. About that, Patrick Mahomes, the

1187
01:01:30,760 --> 01:01:34,400
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson, Russell Wilson passed up the first two four

1188
01:01:34,520 --> 01:01:37,640
Speaker 1: Fournette and the and the third one for a putter.

1189
01:01:38,120 --> 01:01:42,200
Speaker 1: That's the Jags. That's the Jags. Yeah, that is the Jackson.

1190
01:01:42,280 --> 01:01:44,760
Speaker 1: You know what, I think that you can't have too

1191
01:01:44,760 --> 01:01:47,080
Speaker 1: many quarterbacks. Maybe you can't have too many of any

1192
01:01:47,080 --> 01:01:50,360
Speaker 1: position group in the National Football League. But if you're

1193
01:01:50,440 --> 01:01:53,000
Speaker 1: drafting a quarterback, maybe you draft two, or maybe you

1194
01:01:53,000 --> 01:01:55,320
Speaker 1: get a veteran like a a J. McCarron who can

1195
01:01:55,360 --> 01:01:58,080
Speaker 1: help you out. You know. I think here they've been

1196
01:01:58,120 --> 01:02:00,760
Speaker 1: through so much at the quarterback position that there's no

1197
01:02:00,800 --> 01:02:02,640
Speaker 1: way they're not gonna have a backup that they feel

1198
01:02:02,640 --> 01:02:04,080
Speaker 1: like they can't win with it. And I think they

1199
01:02:04,160 --> 01:02:06,680
Speaker 1: feel like they don't want to go through this, but

1200
01:02:06,720 --> 01:02:08,920
Speaker 1: if they had to, they could win with AJ McCarron,

1201
01:02:09,320 --> 01:02:11,320
Speaker 1: you know, and I think Alice Magoo is on the

1202
01:02:11,320 --> 01:02:15,080
Speaker 1: practice squad is interesting. You know, I think they're obviously

1203
01:02:15,080 --> 01:02:17,439
Speaker 1: he wouldn't be here if they didn't think something about him.

1204
01:02:17,680 --> 01:02:20,520
Speaker 1: But we'll see what kind of offseason he has and

1205
01:02:21,080 --> 01:02:23,040
Speaker 1: if they can continue to develop them. I think it's

1206
01:02:23,120 --> 01:02:25,480
Speaker 1: very hard to develop players in the NFL. But you know,

1207
01:02:25,520 --> 01:02:28,040
Speaker 1: hopefully he's making the most of his opportunities. I wanted

1208
01:02:28,080 --> 01:02:30,200
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on the other games, and we

1209
01:02:30,240 --> 01:02:32,280
Speaker 1: didn't talk in detail. We talked about Brady and his

1210
01:02:32,360 --> 01:02:35,280
Speaker 1: future and what happens and what does happen if they

1211
01:02:35,320 --> 01:02:38,280
Speaker 1: lose to the Titans on Saturday night in Foxboro where

1212
01:02:38,320 --> 01:02:42,120
Speaker 1: weather could certainly be a factor. But what do you think,

1213
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:44,800
Speaker 1: what do you think happens here? The likely thing if

1214
01:02:44,800 --> 01:02:46,640
Speaker 1: we're gonna be more likely to happen with the result

1215
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:50,880
Speaker 1: the Patriots win that game. But I and I talked

1216
01:02:50,880 --> 01:02:56,040
Speaker 1: about it with McClean earlier, John that the Patriots losing

1217
01:02:56,080 --> 01:03:00,959
Speaker 1: to the Dolphins was catastrophic. I mean, they lost an

1218
01:03:01,000 --> 01:03:04,320
Speaker 1: off week that was crucial to their chances. I mean,

1219
01:03:04,400 --> 01:03:07,160
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at it from their perspective right now,

1220
01:03:07,640 --> 01:03:10,040
Speaker 1: crucial to their chances to advance. I mean, they love

1221
01:03:10,080 --> 01:03:12,800
Speaker 1: having that off week. They needed to heal Edelman up

1222
01:03:12,800 --> 01:03:15,320
Speaker 1: and numerous other guys, and they didn't get it right.

1223
01:03:15,360 --> 01:03:17,000
Speaker 1: Now they have to play in a short week against

1224
01:03:17,000 --> 01:03:20,760
Speaker 1: a very hungry, tough team. Now, yeah, they should win

1225
01:03:20,800 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: the game because they're the Patriots playing in Foxborough and

1226
01:03:24,040 --> 01:03:26,920
Speaker 1: Belichick is the greatest game planner of all time. But

1227
01:03:27,240 --> 01:03:30,120
Speaker 1: this is a team that certainly can beat them. What

1228
01:03:30,160 --> 01:03:32,439
Speaker 1: do you think happens? Okay, I think the Patriots winning.

1229
01:03:32,480 --> 01:03:35,960
Speaker 1: I've always confident about this as I am anything. The

1230
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:40,720
Speaker 1: Titans were eight and five. We went in there through

1231
01:03:40,760 --> 01:03:44,200
Speaker 1: two interceptions in the end zone and beat them in

1232
01:03:44,240 --> 01:03:45,920
Speaker 1: the biggest game they've played in that stadium in a

1233
01:03:45,960 --> 01:03:49,000
Speaker 1: long time, beat them twenty four twenty one in their stadium.

1234
01:03:49,320 --> 01:03:51,640
Speaker 1: Saints come in. They get a fourteen nothing lead on

1235
01:03:51,680 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: the Saints again in their building. Yeah, and the Saints

1236
01:03:55,040 --> 01:03:57,960
Speaker 1: come back and score they outscoring thirty eight to fourteen

1237
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,000
Speaker 1: for the rest of the game and win that game.

1238
01:04:00,120 --> 01:04:02,560
Speaker 1: Now you argue the Saints, I'm sorry, the Titans didn't

1239
01:04:02,560 --> 01:04:06,040
Speaker 1: have anything at that point to win. Yeah, they needed

1240
01:04:06,040 --> 01:04:08,440
Speaker 1: to have the following week. Then they come here. We

1241
01:04:08,520 --> 01:04:11,680
Speaker 1: don't play anybody in that game. It's a seven point

1242
01:04:11,760 --> 01:04:14,880
Speaker 1: game going into the fourth quarter. I think a lot

1243
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:18,160
Speaker 1: of this about the Titans that has come out this

1244
01:04:18,200 --> 01:04:21,720
Speaker 1: week has been in large part because, well, they rolled

1245
01:04:21,800 --> 01:04:24,640
Speaker 1: up big numbers. Derrick Henry two eleven. Oh, he looks healthy. Now.

1246
01:04:24,960 --> 01:04:29,480
Speaker 1: They did it against our backup guys. Yeah, And I'll

1247
01:04:29,480 --> 01:04:31,640
Speaker 1: give him credit for winning the games that they did. Look,

1248
01:04:31,640 --> 01:04:34,520
Speaker 1: they beat Kansas City earlier in that streak, okay, but

1249
01:04:34,600 --> 01:04:37,160
Speaker 1: then they ran into us. We beat them in their building,

1250
01:04:37,320 --> 01:04:40,360
Speaker 1: Saints beat them in their building, and the Kansas City game,

1251
01:04:40,400 --> 01:04:45,720
Speaker 1: I mean winning, but that was the charm. The Titans

1252
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:48,680
Speaker 1: really honestly shouldn't be in this position regardless of and

1253
01:04:48,800 --> 01:04:50,800
Speaker 1: Tanny Hill has played very very well. I'll give him

1254
01:04:50,800 --> 01:04:53,520
Speaker 1: credit for that. He's played very very well. But it's

1255
01:04:53,560 --> 01:04:56,200
Speaker 1: seventeen seventeen against the Colts and they block a fuel goal.

1256
01:04:56,400 --> 01:04:58,240
Speaker 1: The Colts are about to kick fuel and go ahead,

1257
01:04:59,160 --> 01:05:01,920
Speaker 1: Titans blocking go back. I think the Titans are very

1258
01:05:02,000 --> 01:05:05,800
Speaker 1: very good. They have talent at some key spots. I

1259
01:05:05,920 --> 01:05:09,280
Speaker 1: still think to knock out the Patriots, they've got to

1260
01:05:09,320 --> 01:05:11,360
Speaker 1: be able to deliver the knockout blow. I think Tanny

1261
01:05:11,400 --> 01:05:13,400
Speaker 1: Hill is gonna be thrown a ball from his wallet.

1262
01:05:13,720 --> 01:05:16,280
Speaker 1: What will help Tannehill? As he seen New England before,

1263
01:05:16,880 --> 01:05:19,040
Speaker 1: that will help him to a degree that he has

1264
01:05:19,040 --> 01:05:22,200
Speaker 1: played well and has beaten them before, That's what I

1265
01:05:22,280 --> 01:05:25,680
Speaker 1: was saying. But he's beaten them in Miami. Yeah, he's

1266
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:27,920
Speaker 1: never gone up there. Now, he's probably got as much

1267
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:31,200
Speaker 1: talent around him as he's ever had. But I think

1268
01:05:31,280 --> 01:05:35,520
Speaker 1: when it comes to crunch time, I just don't know

1269
01:05:35,640 --> 01:05:39,080
Speaker 1: that I trust at Titans defense to completely stop the Patriots.

1270
01:05:39,360 --> 01:05:41,560
Speaker 1: I think the Patriots win that ball game, well, I

1271
01:05:41,560 --> 01:05:45,040
Speaker 1: don't trust that, and I don't trust Tannehill's ability to

1272
01:05:45,440 --> 01:05:47,800
Speaker 1: rally them for a late score in Foxborough. I think

1273
01:05:47,800 --> 01:05:49,840
Speaker 1: that's gonna be tough. Now. I know Fitzy just did

1274
01:05:49,880 --> 01:05:53,160
Speaker 1: it and that was a very important game for them.

1275
01:05:53,280 --> 01:05:54,880
Speaker 1: No one can tell me that they were looking past

1276
01:05:54,920 --> 01:05:57,000
Speaker 1: the Dolphins. I just cannot believe that the game was

1277
01:05:57,080 --> 01:06:00,240
Speaker 1: too important. They were put too much emphasis on They

1278
01:06:00,320 --> 01:06:03,680
Speaker 1: knew how they had to have it. Maybe they're just

1279
01:06:03,880 --> 01:06:06,439
Speaker 1: not as good, but I agree with that. I don't

1280
01:06:06,480 --> 01:06:10,160
Speaker 1: think the Patriots are as good as they've been. But

1281
01:06:10,520 --> 01:06:14,080
Speaker 1: in Foxborough in the playoffs, reaching back one time to

1282
01:06:14,120 --> 01:06:16,240
Speaker 1: find the fastball, I think they find it against a

1283
01:06:16,240 --> 01:06:20,160
Speaker 1: team that's not as not as great as everybody thinks

1284
01:06:20,160 --> 01:06:21,520
Speaker 1: it is. And then they got to go on the road.

1285
01:06:22,280 --> 01:06:26,160
Speaker 1: Yeah Chiefs. Yeah, and well yeah exactly. Yeah. And if

1286
01:06:26,160 --> 01:06:29,320
Speaker 1: they lose, obviously, in the Texans win, Texans play the Chiefs,

1287
01:06:29,800 --> 01:06:32,480
Speaker 1: we know that story. If they wait into the Texans

1288
01:06:32,480 --> 01:06:36,600
Speaker 1: whin the Texans play the Baltimore Ravens next week. We'll

1289
01:06:36,640 --> 01:06:38,600
Speaker 1: talk about that in just a moment here. But looking

1290
01:06:38,600 --> 01:06:45,520
Speaker 1: at the NFC games, Vikings, Saints, Interesting, Saints, big, big, big.

1291
01:06:46,160 --> 01:06:48,120
Speaker 1: I don't know the status of Dalvin Cook. I mean

1292
01:06:48,120 --> 01:06:50,040
Speaker 1: that's gonna be that's a huge part of this. The

1293
01:06:50,520 --> 01:06:54,200
Speaker 1: Vikings have gone in that Kevin Stefanski Gary Kubiak offense.

1294
01:06:54,920 --> 01:06:59,200
Speaker 1: They've gone as Dalvin Cook has taken them right, Adam

1295
01:06:59,240 --> 01:07:01,760
Speaker 1: Feeling's been bad, dub so yeah, I haven't dealing back

1296
01:07:01,840 --> 01:07:04,960
Speaker 1: would would help if he's healthy and Stefon Diggs. But

1297
01:07:05,400 --> 01:07:08,520
Speaker 1: we go back to our conversation from earlier, Kirk Cousins,

1298
01:07:08,640 --> 01:07:11,640
Speaker 1: You absolutely one thousand percent believe in Kirk Cousins in

1299
01:07:11,720 --> 01:07:14,840
Speaker 1: the Dome in a playoff game when he's like, oh

1300
01:07:14,880 --> 01:07:16,400
Speaker 1: for eight or oh for nine, I'm gonna have football.

1301
01:07:16,440 --> 01:07:19,200
Speaker 1: I don't trust Kirk Cousins at all, and they blew

1302
01:07:19,200 --> 01:07:21,200
Speaker 1: a chance to win the division in their own building. Yes,

1303
01:07:21,800 --> 01:07:23,800
Speaker 1: and so for that reason, I'm picking the Saints to

1304
01:07:23,840 --> 01:07:27,360
Speaker 1: win that one. Big. Now, when you lose a division

1305
01:07:27,440 --> 01:07:32,040
Speaker 1: game in that context, I'm I'm gonna word this carefully,

1306
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:34,720
Speaker 1: but there's a little bit more of an understanding that

1307
01:07:34,800 --> 01:07:37,520
Speaker 1: it happened, or an excuse, if you will, because division

1308
01:07:37,560 --> 01:07:39,800
Speaker 1: games are tough no matter what the records are or whatever.

1309
01:07:39,880 --> 01:07:41,920
Speaker 1: They know you so well. We all know this second

1310
01:07:41,920 --> 01:07:44,120
Speaker 1: meeting of the year, and they've watched so much tape

1311
01:07:44,120 --> 01:07:46,720
Speaker 1: on you because they're watching tape on the other division

1312
01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:49,120
Speaker 1: opponents playing you. They just know you so well, and

1313
01:07:49,280 --> 01:07:51,720
Speaker 1: that happens. But I'm with you, I just can't see

1314
01:07:51,760 --> 01:07:55,400
Speaker 1: it happening after what happened now there. Look, they do

1315
01:07:55,480 --> 01:07:57,200
Speaker 1: us some talent, there's no doubt about it, and the

1316
01:07:57,240 --> 01:07:59,760
Speaker 1: Saints can be vulnerable on defense, But I don't see

1317
01:07:59,760 --> 01:08:01,840
Speaker 1: the same losing that one either. All right, So Philadelphia

1318
01:08:01,920 --> 01:08:03,919
Speaker 1: and Seattle, that's a tough one. I haven't even looked

1319
01:08:03,920 --> 01:08:06,160
Speaker 1: at the lines on these games, but this is a

1320
01:08:06,200 --> 01:08:08,880
Speaker 1: tough one. I know Seattle's set the line. To me, Well,

1321
01:08:08,960 --> 01:08:12,960
Speaker 1: what do you think the line is Philly two. You're man,

1322
01:08:13,000 --> 01:08:15,480
Speaker 1: you're giving them some You're giving Philly some credit that

1323
01:08:15,600 --> 01:08:18,799
Speaker 1: the Vegas oddsmakers, so that Seattle is a road favorite,

1324
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,920
Speaker 1: Seattle one and a half. This is all right. So

1325
01:08:21,479 --> 01:08:25,160
Speaker 1: people are always way too in love with Seattle. I

1326
01:08:25,439 --> 01:08:30,200
Speaker 1: know Seattle's really good, historically good this last decade. I'm

1327
01:08:30,200 --> 01:08:33,120
Speaker 1: not gonna go back to the Hasslebeck era, but historically good.

1328
01:08:33,120 --> 01:08:35,160
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it, I get it. Come on,

1329
01:08:35,680 --> 01:08:39,960
Speaker 1: you're dealing with the link here. I you know, and

1330
01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:42,800
Speaker 1: I know the number is really about money and where

1331
01:08:42,800 --> 01:08:44,640
Speaker 1: it's gonna go. So if you put Philly as a

1332
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:47,439
Speaker 1: two point favorite, yet everybody's gonna come over to Seattle's side.

1333
01:08:47,640 --> 01:08:49,759
Speaker 1: You trying to keep it even. Here's a big factor.

1334
01:08:50,000 --> 01:08:53,680
Speaker 1: After beating Minnesota, which Seattle did thirty seven thirty, I

1335
01:08:53,840 --> 01:08:57,800
Speaker 1: believe that was like a Monday night game. After that

1336
01:08:58,680 --> 01:09:02,880
Speaker 1: lost at LA twelve. They then went to Carolina and

1337
01:09:02,880 --> 01:09:05,400
Speaker 1: beat Carolina on the East Coast thirty twenty four. Then

1338
01:09:05,439 --> 01:09:08,600
Speaker 1: they lost Arizona by two touchdowns. Then they lost the

1339
01:09:08,600 --> 01:09:10,840
Speaker 1: forty nine ers on that final play. Now they to

1340
01:09:11,000 --> 01:09:13,120
Speaker 1: me it came down in that final play. It should

1341
01:09:13,120 --> 01:09:14,559
Speaker 1: have never come down in that final play. The forty

1342
01:09:14,640 --> 01:09:17,160
Speaker 1: nine Ers had clearly won that game. So they've lost

1343
01:09:17,400 --> 01:09:21,000
Speaker 1: three either last four. Now those three were NFC West

1344
01:09:21,040 --> 01:09:23,120
Speaker 1: teams and the Eagles or not, but they were just

1345
01:09:23,200 --> 01:09:26,160
Speaker 1: saying about the division right they were playing. They beat

1346
01:09:26,160 --> 01:09:29,800
Speaker 1: the Eagles on November twenty fourth, Philly seventeen to nine.

1347
01:09:29,880 --> 01:09:32,120
Speaker 1: So they lost to the Rams. So they lost to

1348
01:09:32,160 --> 01:09:34,800
Speaker 1: all three divisional plants down the stretch, yes, all three.

1349
01:09:34,880 --> 01:09:37,640
Speaker 1: Yet people, now, I know Philly's not that good. I

1350
01:09:37,680 --> 01:09:39,519
Speaker 1: get it. They have a lot of injuries and everything.

1351
01:09:39,560 --> 01:09:43,040
Speaker 1: But they're at home and that matters. It does matter.

1352
01:09:43,160 --> 01:09:45,280
Speaker 1: That matters now we've seen over the last three or

1353
01:09:45,320 --> 01:09:48,200
Speaker 1: four years it doesn't matter. Last year in the wild

1354
01:09:48,200 --> 01:09:53,080
Speaker 1: card round we got beat and then trying to think

1355
01:09:53,080 --> 01:09:55,240
Speaker 1: of else won divisions that ended up having to play

1356
01:09:55,360 --> 01:09:56,760
Speaker 1: was I think it was three out of four home

1357
01:09:56,760 --> 01:09:59,360
Speaker 1: teams ended up getting beat. The only the only home

1358
01:09:59,360 --> 01:10:03,360
Speaker 1: team that held serve was Dallas, who ended up beating Seattle.

1359
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:06,519
Speaker 1: I think trying to grow else one of visions last year,

1360
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:10,400
Speaker 1: but the um because Kansas City had to buy, New

1361
01:10:10,400 --> 01:10:13,960
Speaker 1: England had to buy, and so the Ravens lost the

1362
01:10:14,120 --> 01:10:17,800
Speaker 1: Chargers at home. We lost to the Colts Cheese. You

1363
01:10:17,840 --> 01:10:22,720
Speaker 1: had both AFC teams losing their wildcard home games. Yes, yes, yes,

1364
01:10:22,840 --> 01:10:25,280
Speaker 1: you had seats five and six advanced. And that's why

1365
01:10:25,360 --> 01:10:28,880
Speaker 1: Kansas City got Indianapolis in that one because they were

1366
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:31,559
Speaker 1: the one seat. And then over in the NFC you

1367
01:10:31,600 --> 01:10:34,680
Speaker 1: had Dallas ended up beating Seattle, so you had you

1368
01:10:34,720 --> 01:10:37,560
Speaker 1: had that one. But the Bears. The Bears lost the

1369
01:10:37,640 --> 01:10:40,920
Speaker 1: double Doink game, the double doink right at the end.

1370
01:10:40,920 --> 01:10:43,400
Speaker 1: The Bears lost what they call that one in Chicago,

1371
01:10:43,520 --> 01:10:47,400
Speaker 1: double doin. I like double not for them, but whatever. Okay,

1372
01:10:47,439 --> 01:10:50,200
Speaker 1: John's gonna stay with us. I need Look, you're gonna

1373
01:10:50,200 --> 01:10:51,760
Speaker 1: give me a tease on tomorrow nights show. I need

1374
01:10:51,800 --> 01:10:53,920
Speaker 1: the three most important factors to pulling out a victory

1375
01:10:54,320 --> 01:10:56,759
Speaker 1: from you. And I also have a couple of college

1376
01:10:56,760 --> 01:11:00,839
Speaker 1: football questions for you, because they're seventeen bowls after the

1377
01:11:00,880 --> 01:11:04,040
Speaker 1: New Year's Day games and the semifinals. I can't figure

1378
01:11:04,080 --> 01:11:06,320
Speaker 1: it out. Calling all Houston area teachers. If you want

1379
01:11:06,320 --> 01:11:09,120
Speaker 1: to bring Texans football to the classroom, sign up for

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1384
01:11:21,640 --> 01:11:25,800
Speaker 1: along Thursday night activity before the playoffs begin this weekend

1385
01:11:25,880 --> 01:11:28,800
Speaker 1: three thirty five Kick on Saturday Texans and Bills. Mark

1386
01:11:28,880 --> 01:11:32,519
Speaker 1: Vandermayer and John Harris with you Houston Methodist minutes coming up,

1387
01:11:32,680 --> 01:11:36,280
Speaker 1: starting good habits in the new year, eating habits, workout habits.

1388
01:11:36,280 --> 01:11:38,120
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that for a couple of minutes, but

1389
01:11:38,280 --> 01:11:42,240
Speaker 1: right now, Johnny, I need a sneak preview tomorrow night's show.

1390
01:11:42,280 --> 01:11:45,920
Speaker 1: It's the Friday night game Plan show with you, and

1391
01:11:46,040 --> 01:11:49,720
Speaker 1: you do an outstanding job telling people what the big

1392
01:11:49,760 --> 01:11:52,280
Speaker 1: factors are. I want a quick sneak preview here. Give

1393
01:11:52,320 --> 01:11:55,400
Speaker 1: me three big factors and pulling out the victory on

1394
01:11:55,600 --> 01:11:58,599
Speaker 1: Saturday against the Buffalo Bills for these Houston Texans well

1395
01:11:58,640 --> 01:12:02,920
Speaker 1: in facing the Buffalo Bill's offense, I think we all

1396
01:12:02,960 --> 01:12:05,040
Speaker 1: know about Josh Allen, but I think Devin Singletary is

1397
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:08,360
Speaker 1: taken over as the key cog in that offense. They're

1398
01:12:08,400 --> 01:12:10,320
Speaker 1: gonna try and get him the ball at least twenty times.

1399
01:12:10,640 --> 01:12:13,759
Speaker 1: They'll get him fourteen fifteen carries. They'll target him probably

1400
01:12:13,800 --> 01:12:16,439
Speaker 1: four to five times in the passing game. He is

1401
01:12:17,080 --> 01:12:20,400
Speaker 1: extremely difficult to cover out wide. He's quicker than he

1402
01:12:20,520 --> 01:12:23,559
Speaker 1: is fast, but he can still run. He had thirty

1403
01:12:23,560 --> 01:12:26,400
Speaker 1: two touchdowns when he was a sophomore at FAU in

1404
01:12:26,439 --> 01:12:29,400
Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Didn't have as many in twenty eighteen. Before

1405
01:12:29,400 --> 01:12:31,040
Speaker 1: he came to the league in twenty nineteen. I think

1406
01:12:31,080 --> 01:12:34,559
Speaker 1: Singletary is not getting quite his due because what's been

1407
01:12:34,560 --> 01:12:37,200
Speaker 1: happening is everybody's been talking about, Oh, Frank Gore is

1408
01:12:37,200 --> 01:12:39,679
Speaker 1: still there. Frank Gore is still there. Over the last

1409
01:12:39,680 --> 01:12:43,840
Speaker 1: three weeks, four weeks, maybe even before that, Singletary has

1410
01:12:43,880 --> 01:12:47,720
Speaker 1: been the guy. He's been the guy. We haven't even

1411
01:12:47,760 --> 01:12:50,040
Speaker 1: seen Frank Gore much. Gore comes in down on the

1412
01:12:50,080 --> 01:12:52,320
Speaker 1: goal line a little bit, and obviously if Frank comes

1413
01:12:52,320 --> 01:12:54,080
Speaker 1: in the game, you know what he's all about. You've

1414
01:12:54,120 --> 01:12:56,920
Speaker 1: seen him in numerous times when he's with the Indianapolis Colts.

1415
01:12:57,439 --> 01:12:59,800
Speaker 1: But to me, Singletary is an issue because he'll go

1416
01:12:59,840 --> 01:13:03,640
Speaker 1: out wide, they'll throw him screens. He's got to be

1417
01:13:03,720 --> 01:13:07,679
Speaker 1: a guy that Zach Cuttingham is all over all day long,

1418
01:13:07,920 --> 01:13:11,960
Speaker 1: because if he's not, he's tough, he's quick, he runs.

1419
01:13:12,000 --> 01:13:14,559
Speaker 1: He can't find him behind that really big offensive line

1420
01:13:14,600 --> 01:13:18,080
Speaker 1: for Buffalo, so tackling him is not easy either. He's

1421
01:13:18,080 --> 01:13:20,680
Speaker 1: one of those guys that I mentioned earlier. He's just

1422
01:13:20,880 --> 01:13:23,920
Speaker 1: relentless in the way he goes about it. So I

1423
01:13:23,920 --> 01:13:26,720
Speaker 1: think that's one thing offensive. The other thing against their

1424
01:13:26,760 --> 01:13:32,360
Speaker 1: offense is that just watching Alan's he can make every

1425
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:36,120
Speaker 1: throw and he's athletic, get a pocket. But I still

1426
01:13:36,160 --> 01:13:40,120
Speaker 1: think teams that blitz him had success, that brought a

1427
01:13:40,160 --> 01:13:43,519
Speaker 1: lot of guys success, had success because he got to

1428
01:13:43,560 --> 01:13:45,240
Speaker 1: where he's looking at the rush, he's looking for his

1429
01:13:45,400 --> 01:13:47,800
Speaker 1: escape plan and guys are working and get open now

1430
01:13:47,880 --> 01:13:50,040
Speaker 1: field he can't find him because the blitz is come

1431
01:13:50,080 --> 01:13:52,240
Speaker 1: and Baltimore gave him a ton of issues with that.

1432
01:13:52,760 --> 01:13:55,479
Speaker 1: There was a run in the late second quarter and

1433
01:13:55,760 --> 01:13:57,559
Speaker 1: I'm on it the third quarter, I believe, and then

1434
01:13:57,640 --> 01:14:01,160
Speaker 1: late in the fourth where where Wink Martin DC for

1435
01:14:01,520 --> 01:14:06,000
Speaker 1: Baltimore just brought brought the funk and said here you go,

1436
01:14:06,479 --> 01:14:08,400
Speaker 1: and he didn't handle it. He didn't handle it very well.

1437
01:14:08,439 --> 01:14:11,600
Speaker 1: He couldn't get the ball out quickly, and they That

1438
01:14:11,720 --> 01:14:13,760
Speaker 1: really was kind of the turning point in the game,

1439
01:14:13,800 --> 01:14:18,280
Speaker 1: the fact that he couldn't handle the plitz defensively. You know,

1440
01:14:18,479 --> 01:14:20,800
Speaker 1: I watched the Patriots. One thing the Patriots did that

1441
01:14:20,880 --> 01:14:25,840
Speaker 1: I was not shocked considering what the Eagles did. But

1442
01:14:26,000 --> 01:14:30,719
Speaker 1: following the Eagles plan and following the Patriots plan, both

1443
01:14:30,760 --> 01:14:34,000
Speaker 1: teams went right at the Bills. They didn't try to

1444
01:14:34,040 --> 01:14:38,719
Speaker 1: go wide. The Patriots got in twenty one personnel, two

1445
01:14:38,760 --> 01:14:41,920
Speaker 1: backs and a tight end, and they took Landon Roberts,

1446
01:14:41,960 --> 01:14:45,599
Speaker 1: who is now I think a permanent fullback, and they

1447
01:14:45,600 --> 01:14:47,919
Speaker 1: put him at fullback and they just went in downhill

1448
01:14:47,960 --> 01:14:51,599
Speaker 1: between the tackles. Even in the fourth quarter. The Patriots

1449
01:14:51,640 --> 01:14:55,320
Speaker 1: were down in the fourth quarter and they went smash mouth.

1450
01:14:55,360 --> 01:14:58,640
Speaker 1: They just went right at Buffalo. And then when they

1451
01:14:58,680 --> 01:15:02,240
Speaker 1: had loosened Buffalo up, then they found Julian Edelman on

1452
01:15:02,280 --> 01:15:04,920
Speaker 1: a huge route that he caught, got open, caught it,

1453
01:15:05,080 --> 01:15:06,760
Speaker 1: went up field, got him in the red zone. They

1454
01:15:06,760 --> 01:15:09,200
Speaker 1: were able to score a little while later. But the

1455
01:15:09,240 --> 01:15:13,439
Speaker 1: Patriots did not back down from how good a defense

1456
01:15:13,520 --> 01:15:16,719
Speaker 1: Buffalo was, and they just physically challenged him. The Eagles

1457
01:15:16,720 --> 01:15:18,760
Speaker 1: did that. That was the biggest margin of victory this

1458
01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:21,840
Speaker 1: year for the for the biggest margin of loss for

1459
01:15:21,840 --> 01:15:24,400
Speaker 1: the Bills was against the Eagles, and yeah, thirty one

1460
01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:26,439
Speaker 1: point and they ran straight up the gun and they

1461
01:15:26,479 --> 01:15:29,080
Speaker 1: went right at them. Now, Miles Sanders had one screen pass,

1462
01:15:29,360 --> 01:15:32,400
Speaker 1: but they ran the ball right at the Bills, like

1463
01:15:32,520 --> 01:15:34,040
Speaker 1: right at them. They didn't try and go wide and

1464
01:15:34,160 --> 01:15:36,680
Speaker 1: let the linebackers run and make plays or let the

1465
01:15:36,720 --> 01:15:40,879
Speaker 1: safeties come up and make plays. They went downhill between

1466
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:45,120
Speaker 1: the b gaps basically and said yes, Starletule, Jordan Phillips,

1467
01:15:45,520 --> 01:15:48,360
Speaker 1: big guys, big players, but they just came off the

1468
01:15:48,400 --> 01:15:50,840
Speaker 1: football they used to fullback. Now that's not something the

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01:15:50,920 --> 01:15:53,880
Speaker 1: Texans do have one, but they haven't done it, so

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01:15:54,000 --> 01:15:56,960
Speaker 1: it'll be a little different how the Texans would approach it.

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Speaker 1: But I do think there is that opportunity to get

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01:16:00,160 --> 01:16:03,840
Speaker 1: downhill against the Bills running the football that maybe you

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01:16:03,840 --> 01:16:05,719
Speaker 1: wouldn't think about, because when you think about a great

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01:16:05,720 --> 01:16:07,559
Speaker 1: defense and think, oh, you can't run the ball on them,

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01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:09,680
Speaker 1: I think if you decide that early on, oh we

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01:16:09,680 --> 01:16:12,040
Speaker 1: can't run the ball, I think it's gonna be I

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01:16:12,080 --> 01:16:15,439
Speaker 1: think that's it. Yeah, it's playing right into your hands.

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01:16:15,479 --> 01:16:18,040
Speaker 1: But if you physically answer them and up front you

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01:16:18,120 --> 01:16:19,920
Speaker 1: just hit somebody in the mouth, then you mix in

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01:16:19,960 --> 01:16:22,439
Speaker 1: your zone and your power game and your gap game

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01:16:22,720 --> 01:16:24,920
Speaker 1: gap scheme game. I think you've got an opportunity to

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01:16:25,000 --> 01:16:28,000
Speaker 1: run the ball at them, and that's something you can't

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01:16:28,040 --> 01:16:30,439
Speaker 1: back away from. But what I just found interesting about

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01:16:30,479 --> 01:16:33,200
Speaker 1: it was that the when the Patriots and Eagles had

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01:16:33,240 --> 01:16:37,120
Speaker 1: to have it and in times against the Bills, that's

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Speaker 1: what they went to. They went to the interior running

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01:16:40,040 --> 01:16:41,880
Speaker 1: game and really pounded on the Bills. So you're saying,

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01:16:41,960 --> 01:16:48,439
Speaker 1: singletary stop him run up the middle. Yes, yeah, here's

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01:16:48,479 --> 01:16:50,920
Speaker 1: the other one. I think for the offense, I wouldn't

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01:16:50,960 --> 01:16:54,200
Speaker 1: be opposed to going with some tempo, to upping the

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01:16:54,200 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: tempo a little bit um and kind of just just

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01:16:57,439 --> 01:17:01,000
Speaker 1: keeping the Bills kind of changing speeds because the Bills

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01:17:01,080 --> 01:17:04,000
Speaker 1: do just a little bit. They're not as they're not

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01:17:04,040 --> 01:17:08,720
Speaker 1: as big on making the wholesale personnel changes. They'll do

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01:17:08,760 --> 01:17:11,479
Speaker 1: it from series the series or you know, you get

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01:17:11,479 --> 01:17:13,840
Speaker 1: a first down that might bring in Corey Legit and

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01:17:14,640 --> 01:17:17,519
Speaker 1: at Oliver, but they're not bringing in like you'll see us.

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01:17:18,080 --> 01:17:19,960
Speaker 1: We got a first down, second our crew and then

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01:17:20,080 --> 01:17:22,760
Speaker 1: five guys come in, five guys go out. So they're

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01:17:22,800 --> 01:17:24,920
Speaker 1: not gonna be like that. But I still think you

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01:17:25,120 --> 01:17:27,040
Speaker 1: might be able to hit them with some up tempo

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01:17:27,640 --> 01:17:30,800
Speaker 1: even if that's just to get your offense going. If

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01:17:30,840 --> 01:17:34,360
Speaker 1: you get kind of stagnant early, right, then use that

1504
01:17:34,479 --> 01:17:37,639
Speaker 1: up tempo, use that, use the short passing game. They're

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01:17:37,640 --> 01:17:41,560
Speaker 1: gonna play man coverage, but they'll play off man coverage. Tenevious.

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01:17:41,600 --> 01:17:44,200
Speaker 1: White's very very good and playing off coverage as well.

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01:17:44,560 --> 01:17:46,960
Speaker 1: So take what they take what they give you, but

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01:17:47,040 --> 01:17:49,840
Speaker 1: then move the sticks and use your up tempo a

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01:17:49,880 --> 01:17:51,439
Speaker 1: little bit and see if you can't get them back

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01:17:51,439 --> 01:17:53,160
Speaker 1: on your heels a little bit. I like it. I

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01:17:53,280 --> 01:17:55,680
Speaker 1: like it a lot, all right, shifting gears a bit. Here.

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01:17:55,840 --> 01:17:59,360
Speaker 1: A week ago, well not quite a week ago, we

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01:17:59,479 --> 01:18:02,320
Speaker 1: have the Texas Bowl here, and it was a big success.

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01:18:02,640 --> 01:18:05,640
Speaker 1: You know, it's a top five bowl in attendance, and

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01:18:05,760 --> 01:18:08,200
Speaker 1: it's safe to say because we just have the National

1516
01:18:08,320 --> 01:18:10,360
Speaker 1: championship left and a few other balls that aren't going

1517
01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:12,720
Speaker 1: to do better than this ball, all right. So that's

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01:18:12,760 --> 01:18:15,720
Speaker 1: an incredible feat, really and a testament to all the

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01:18:15,720 --> 01:18:18,040
Speaker 1: people here who do a great job putting on that bowl,

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01:18:18,080 --> 01:18:19,840
Speaker 1: and of course the fans who actually go to the bowl.

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01:18:19,920 --> 01:18:23,960
Speaker 1: So great. But I'm confused. If you're a commissioner of

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01:18:24,040 --> 01:18:27,479
Speaker 1: college football, yes, what would you do? If anything? Maybe

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01:18:27,479 --> 01:18:29,120
Speaker 1: It's perfect the way it is now. You get the

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01:18:29,160 --> 01:18:33,200
Speaker 1: four team playoff. You had playoff games on Saturday. Great,

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01:18:33,360 --> 01:18:35,799
Speaker 1: and then the bulls continued. You had in the NFL

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01:18:35,880 --> 01:18:38,000
Speaker 1: Big Day on Sunday. But then the bulls continued, and

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01:18:38,040 --> 01:18:40,240
Speaker 1: New Year's Day felt right to me in a way.

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01:18:40,479 --> 01:18:42,320
Speaker 1: I was like I was watching the rose balls. Watching

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01:18:42,320 --> 01:18:46,000
Speaker 1: the Sugar Bowl just felt okay. But I knew and

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01:18:46,040 --> 01:18:47,599
Speaker 1: I didn't even know it was on the next day,

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01:18:47,640 --> 01:18:49,600
Speaker 1: but I knew that the bowls would continue because I

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01:18:49,680 --> 01:18:51,559
Speaker 1: knew that there was something like Gator Bowl and certain

1533
01:18:51,600 --> 01:18:54,080
Speaker 1: bulls had not been played yet, and here they are.

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01:18:54,200 --> 01:18:57,000
Speaker 1: You still have a bunch of bowls after New Year's Day.

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01:18:57,080 --> 01:18:59,479
Speaker 1: And I remember the first time or two where you

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01:18:59,560 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: had not the championship but another bowl like the gmac

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01:19:03,200 --> 01:19:05,719
Speaker 1: Ball or something like that after the New Year's Day balls,

1538
01:19:05,720 --> 01:19:09,080
Speaker 1: and I thought that's kind of weird. But okay, whatever

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01:19:09,160 --> 01:19:11,240
Speaker 1: you say. But now the horses out of the bar.

1540
01:19:11,600 --> 01:19:13,840
Speaker 1: It's just a TV window and they're gonna stick a

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01:19:13,880 --> 01:19:16,880
Speaker 1: bowl in there. Why not? It's all TV shows. Do

1542
01:19:16,920 --> 01:19:19,360
Speaker 1: you think it's okay? Do you think they should change it?

1543
01:19:19,520 --> 01:19:21,040
Speaker 1: What are you thinking? I would like to see the

1544
01:19:21,040 --> 01:19:23,280
Speaker 1: playoff games on New Year's Day. I would like to

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01:19:23,320 --> 01:19:27,240
Speaker 1: see college football own New Year's Day as it used to.

1546
01:19:27,320 --> 01:19:29,240
Speaker 1: And I thought it was interesting. I saw somebody tweet

1547
01:19:29,320 --> 01:19:32,080
Speaker 1: this and said, I don't know how far back this was,

1548
01:19:32,280 --> 01:19:35,040
Speaker 1: but I may have been the mid nineties, and they

1549
01:19:35,040 --> 01:19:40,200
Speaker 1: said they were eighteen bowl games on New Year's Day. No, No,

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01:19:40,360 --> 01:19:43,599
Speaker 1: eighteen bowl games total. I'm thinking, well, that's a lot

1551
01:19:43,840 --> 01:19:47,479
Speaker 1: eight run New Year's Day. So New Year's Day was it?

1552
01:19:47,560 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: I mean it was college football? He say, New Year's Day? Yeah,

1553
01:19:49,880 --> 01:19:52,960
Speaker 1: college football. What has happened is New Year's Day? What

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:56,439
Speaker 1: do you think of Rose Bowl? That's gotten? And I

1555
01:19:56,479 --> 01:19:58,639
Speaker 1: think that's kind of They're not gonna budge. The Rose

1556
01:19:58,640 --> 01:20:02,160
Speaker 1: Bowl and Sugar Bowl will not budge. So can you

1557
01:20:02,439 --> 01:20:05,720
Speaker 1: can you work around that in some sense? Can you?

1558
01:20:05,800 --> 01:20:09,320
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you play up I don't know, Maybe you

1559
01:20:09,360 --> 01:20:12,920
Speaker 1: play a playoff game that day with New Year's Day

1560
01:20:13,000 --> 01:20:16,040
Speaker 1: because you've got you're playing, you're playing championship game on

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01:20:16,040 --> 01:20:18,840
Speaker 1: the thirteenth, right, So if you played one game on

1562
01:20:18,880 --> 01:20:22,240
Speaker 1: the thirty first and one game on the first, you know,

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01:20:22,280 --> 01:20:24,400
Speaker 1: because the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowls aren't gonna move,

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01:20:24,680 --> 01:20:26,920
Speaker 1: then maybe that's one. Maybe that's one way to do it.

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01:20:27,120 --> 01:20:29,599
Speaker 1: I just felt like playing them on Saturday, because college

1566
01:20:29,640 --> 01:20:32,920
Speaker 1: football feels like it owns Saturday. You're playing them four

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01:20:33,040 --> 01:20:36,320
Speaker 1: days before or three days three or four days before

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01:20:36,400 --> 01:20:40,640
Speaker 1: January first. I hated it. I absolutely could not stand it.

1569
01:20:40,760 --> 01:20:43,000
Speaker 1: I was almost like, wait, wait till this weekend. But

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01:20:43,040 --> 01:20:44,880
Speaker 1: then you're up against the NFL playoffs and you can't

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01:20:44,920 --> 01:20:47,160
Speaker 1: do that, I know. And the problem and the sticking

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01:20:47,200 --> 01:20:50,479
Speaker 1: point is the Rose Bowl. So college football has to

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01:20:50,520 --> 01:20:54,880
Speaker 1: do one or two things. Number one, it has to say, okay,

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01:20:54,920 --> 01:20:58,160
Speaker 1: with this current format, we're just gonna stick with it.

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01:20:58,200 --> 01:21:00,639
Speaker 1: We're gonna play the games on Saturday, or we're gonna

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01:21:00,640 --> 01:21:03,800
Speaker 1: play them on the thirty first, and you go go

1577
01:21:03,880 --> 01:21:07,600
Speaker 1: from there, or you call up the Rose Bowl and

1578
01:21:07,640 --> 01:21:10,280
Speaker 1: Sugar Bowl and say, hey, um, this is what we're

1579
01:21:10,280 --> 01:21:12,479
Speaker 1: doing our playoff games. If you don't like it, you

1580
01:21:12,479 --> 01:21:15,640
Speaker 1: don't have to be on board, but this is how

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01:21:15,640 --> 01:21:18,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna do it. And you dictate to the Rose

1582
01:21:18,080 --> 01:21:20,200
Speaker 1: Bowl and to the Sugar Bowl. It's no longer going

1583
01:21:20,240 --> 01:21:22,120
Speaker 1: to be that way. Those two have been the sticking

1584
01:21:22,160 --> 01:21:25,800
Speaker 1: points with the Bowl Coalition with the BCS because they

1585
01:21:25,840 --> 01:21:30,000
Speaker 1: wanted the tradition, especially especially the Rose Bowl. I get it.

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01:21:30,400 --> 01:21:32,960
Speaker 1: I get it, I get it. What I would do

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01:21:33,520 --> 01:21:36,519
Speaker 1: is I would flip. I would flip the Sugar Bowl.

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01:21:36,520 --> 01:21:37,920
Speaker 1: I would play it in the morning. Sugar Bowl used

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01:21:37,960 --> 01:21:39,840
Speaker 1: to be played in the early morning or not an

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01:21:39,960 --> 01:21:43,720
Speaker 1: early morning when when herschel Walker was playing, that was

1591
01:21:43,760 --> 01:21:46,080
Speaker 1: a morning game. That used to be a morning game. Okay,

1592
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,559
Speaker 1: so maybe you can flip or like early afternoon. Okay,

1593
01:21:49,680 --> 01:21:51,840
Speaker 1: so maybe you can flip that. I don't know. But

1594
01:21:51,920 --> 01:21:53,519
Speaker 1: if the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl are gonna get

1595
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:56,120
Speaker 1: on board, then you just tell them, well, we're gonna

1596
01:21:56,120 --> 01:21:58,680
Speaker 1: play our playoff games on January first, and if you

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01:21:58,720 --> 01:22:01,639
Speaker 1: don't want to get on board mine, but your conferences

1598
01:22:01,640 --> 01:22:03,600
Speaker 1: aren't going to be happy that your champions are going

1599
01:22:03,640 --> 01:22:05,799
Speaker 1: to be playing in our playoff. You know. I complain

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01:22:05,840 --> 01:22:08,679
Speaker 1: about it sometimes and I'm a traditionalist in some ways

1601
01:22:09,160 --> 01:22:11,519
Speaker 1: when it's convenient, But it is kind of cool having

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01:22:11,560 --> 01:22:14,120
Speaker 1: football on twenty four to seven, you know, because that's

1603
01:22:14,160 --> 01:22:16,120
Speaker 1: what it is. You put a football game on the air,

1604
01:22:16,280 --> 01:22:19,240
Speaker 1: people are gonna watch. It is gonna outrate any other sport.

1605
01:22:19,439 --> 01:22:21,400
Speaker 1: That's just the way it is. Johnny teks a lot.

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01:22:21,400 --> 01:22:24,400
Speaker 1: You got, all right, Let's hit Houston Methodist minutes here

1607
01:22:24,520 --> 01:22:26,599
Speaker 1: and it's the new year. All of you are making

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01:22:26,600 --> 01:22:30,639
Speaker 1: your resolutions. My gosh, are you doing a terrible job already?

1609
01:22:30,680 --> 01:22:33,920
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding I am. Anyway, let's get some expert

1610
01:22:33,920 --> 01:22:38,320
Speaker 1: advice here with doctor VJ. Jut Wanny of Houston Methodist.

1611
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:43,120
Speaker 1: Unhealthy habits, working out, nutrition, whatever, doctor jot wanty. How's

1612
01:22:43,160 --> 01:22:46,200
Speaker 1: it going. Everything's going great, Mark, thanks for having me well.

1613
01:22:46,240 --> 01:22:50,400
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. And it's not happy for everybody necessarily

1614
01:22:50,439 --> 01:22:52,240
Speaker 1: when they want to start new habits and they have

1615
01:22:52,280 --> 01:22:57,920
Speaker 1: trouble sticking to them. Let's talk about post holiday health patterns, habits,

1616
01:22:58,120 --> 01:23:01,000
Speaker 1: how people can get off to a good start, eating,

1617
01:23:01,080 --> 01:23:03,840
Speaker 1: losing weight, working out, whatever they're doing to make it

1618
01:23:03,840 --> 01:23:06,400
Speaker 1: a happier New year in twenty twenty. Well, the best

1619
01:23:06,439 --> 01:23:09,120
Speaker 1: advice I would add for someone who's setting that new

1620
01:23:09,200 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: year's resolution around weight loss or exercise is to start slow.

1621
01:23:15,600 --> 01:23:19,519
Speaker 1: Start with a minor change that you can live within

1622
01:23:19,600 --> 01:23:24,040
Speaker 1: your diet, Start with some light physical activity and build

1623
01:23:24,080 --> 01:23:26,799
Speaker 1: up from there. Would we want to harness that energy

1624
01:23:26,880 --> 01:23:31,639
Speaker 1: around those goals and motivations for New Year's resolutions, but

1625
01:23:32,080 --> 01:23:34,240
Speaker 1: we don't want to overdo it on day one and

1626
01:23:34,280 --> 01:23:37,000
Speaker 1: then end up maybe two sort to go back to

1627
01:23:37,040 --> 01:23:40,000
Speaker 1: the gym for a week, or making a diet change

1628
01:23:40,040 --> 01:23:42,960
Speaker 1: that isn't something you can keep going with for the

1629
01:23:43,040 --> 01:23:46,120
Speaker 1: weeks and months ahead. Well, I like that idea. Let's

1630
01:23:46,120 --> 01:23:48,200
Speaker 1: give somebody a game plan here. So if they have

1631
01:23:48,320 --> 01:23:51,600
Speaker 1: that new behavior that's slow starting one change here and

1632
01:23:51,680 --> 01:23:53,760
Speaker 1: there kind of behavior, how many weeks do you want

1633
01:23:53,760 --> 01:23:56,160
Speaker 1: to see before they start to layer on top of

1634
01:23:56,200 --> 01:23:59,280
Speaker 1: that with some more weight loss techniques working out whatever

1635
01:23:59,320 --> 01:24:01,599
Speaker 1: they might add to the mix. You know, I think

1636
01:24:02,320 --> 01:24:07,120
Speaker 1: adding on incremental changes every few weeks would be very reasonable,

1637
01:24:07,640 --> 01:24:11,280
Speaker 1: and that might even include some minor changes day to

1638
01:24:11,360 --> 01:24:13,960
Speaker 1: day in the gym. If you start out getting on

1639
01:24:14,080 --> 01:24:18,599
Speaker 1: the stationary bike for fifteen minutes, well by a few

1640
01:24:18,680 --> 01:24:21,080
Speaker 1: days later you can up that to twenty minutes and

1641
01:24:21,240 --> 01:24:23,960
Speaker 1: twenty five minutes. And what we don't want is a

1642
01:24:24,040 --> 01:24:26,639
Speaker 1: mistake is you go and show up on day one,

1643
01:24:26,760 --> 01:24:28,760
Speaker 1: you get on the bike for an hour, and then

1644
01:24:28,800 --> 01:24:32,320
Speaker 1: you end up really struggling with being store or not

1645
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:34,800
Speaker 1: being able to keep that going for the long term.

1646
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:38,960
Speaker 1: Do you find that the exercise bike or the elliptical

1647
01:24:39,280 --> 01:24:43,280
Speaker 1: or simply walking running outside there's one better than another

1648
01:24:43,439 --> 01:24:46,679
Speaker 1: to start out at if you haven't exercise for a while,

1649
01:24:46,720 --> 01:24:48,280
Speaker 1: what do you recommend it or does it vary from

1650
01:24:48,320 --> 01:24:51,280
Speaker 1: person to person. I would say walking is a good

1651
01:24:51,280 --> 01:24:54,120
Speaker 1: way to start if you really have an exercise in

1652
01:24:54,160 --> 01:24:57,440
Speaker 1: a while, and the weather's great these days, no excuses

1653
01:24:57,479 --> 01:25:00,720
Speaker 1: to not be outside and doing of that. But I

1654
01:25:00,800 --> 01:25:04,080
Speaker 1: would say the best thing we can do is do

1655
01:25:04,360 --> 01:25:08,800
Speaker 1: multiple types of activities, so not just one or the other.

1656
01:25:08,840 --> 01:25:10,760
Speaker 1: But if you can change it up day to day,

1657
01:25:11,240 --> 01:25:13,519
Speaker 1: you're going to help avoid injuries and it's going to

1658
01:25:13,640 --> 01:25:16,760
Speaker 1: keep things more interesting and fun as well. Doctor, thanks

1659
01:25:16,760 --> 01:25:19,000
Speaker 1: so much for the time. We appreciate it, and once again,

1660
01:25:19,040 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: Happy New Year. Happy New Year to you, doctor VJ.

1661
01:25:22,200 --> 01:25:25,760
Speaker 1: Jot Wade of Houston Methodist with some New Year's resolution

1662
01:25:25,800 --> 01:25:28,920
Speaker 1: to help for your workouts and healthy habits. It's all

1663
01:25:28,960 --> 01:25:33,080
Speaker 1: from Houston Methodist, the official healthcare provider of the Houston Texans.

1664
01:25:33,240 --> 01:25:36,200
Speaker 1: Houston Methodist Leading Medicine. All right, that's gonna do it

1665
01:25:36,240 --> 01:25:40,120
Speaker 1: for the show. Don't forget Texans bills Saturday? How could you?

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1668
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Speaker 1: signals from the stadium Now just stick to those broadcast

1669
01:25:48,800 --> 01:25:51,439
Speaker 1: media and we'll get you all squared away. Don't forget

1670
01:25:51,439 --> 01:25:55,080
Speaker 1: about Texans Game Day nine thirty am on KPRC Local

1671
01:25:55,120 --> 01:25:59,920
Speaker 1: two and then Texans Extra Points one o'clock on ABC

1672
01:26:00,320 --> 01:26:03,559
Speaker 1: thirteen to begin the whole pregame parade of shows prior

1673
01:26:03,600 --> 01:26:05,960
Speaker 1: to the playoff game. Want to thank everyone who worked

1674
01:26:05,960 --> 01:26:08,320
Speaker 1: on the show and who listened to it tonight. Most importantly,

1675
01:26:08,479 --> 01:26:11,080
Speaker 1: have a great evening everyone, and go Texans.